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Images of Rebirth: Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul

By Hugo Lundhaug

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2010
ISBN
9004180265, 9789004180260
ISSN
0929-2470
Google Books ID
6rKAxNgJ-30C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6086747 bytes)
Series
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 73
Pages
xviii+594\613
Topic
Religion Orthodoxy
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-05-14 20:47:29
Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;История

Description

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.

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