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Die "Erzählung über die Seele" ist die 6. Schrift aus Codex II des koptischen Handschriftenfundes von Nag Hammadi (Oberägypten). Der koptische Text wurde neu herausgegeben, übersetzt und durch einen ausführlichen Index grammatikalisch aufgeschlüsselt.Mit diesem Buch wird der erste deutschsprachige Kommentar zu dieser Schrift vorgelegt. Er arbeitet besonders die traditionsgeschichtlichen Bezugspunkte dieser Schrift heraus und sieht diese in den platonischen Traditionen über die Seele, in der biblischen Metaphorik und in den jüdisch-christlichen Traditionen Alexandriens. The Exegesis on the Soul is a Coptic text (approx. 2nd/3rd cent. AD) and forms a vital part of the manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt).

Gnosticism. --- 273.1*35 --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Gnosticism --- Exegesis on the Soul. --- Exegesis about the Being --- Exēgēsis etve ti-psychē --- Exegesis of the Soul --- Expository treatise on the Soul --- Cults --- Early church. --- Nag Hammadi.

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This book offers fresh readings of the Gospel of Philip (NHC II.3) and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II.6) from new theoretical and historical perspectives. Eschewing the category of “Gnosticism” and challenging common categorisations, the book analyses the preserved Coptic texts as coherent Christian compositions contemporary with the production and use of the Nag Hammadi Codices. A methodological framework based on Cognitive Poetics is outlined and applied to illuminate how the texts present a soteriology of transformation through religious rituals and practices using complex conceptual and intertextual blends with important polemical and paraenetic functions. The analysis highlights the use of metaphors and allusions in (re-)interpretations of authoritative Scripture, ritual and dogma. Complete Coptic texts and translations are included.

Gnostic literature --- Hermeneutics. --- Salvation --- Soul --- Gnosticism --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- History and criticism. --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History of doctrines. --- Exegesis on the Soul --- Gospel of Philip --- Bible. --- Coptic Gospel of Philip --- Gospel according to Philip --- Exegesis about the Being --- Exēgēsis etve ti-psychē --- Exegesis of the Soul --- Expository treatise on the Soul --- Language, style. --- Theology. --- Hermeneutics --- Gnostic literature - History and criticism --- Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Soul - History of doctrines