Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi collection and other ancient literature : ideas and practices : studies for Einar Thomassen at sixty / / edited by Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied and John D. Turner.
Mystery and secrecy were central concepts in the ritual, rhetoric, and sociological stratification of antique Mediterranean religions. That the ultimate nature and workings of the divine were secret, and either could not or should not be revealed except as a mystery for the initiated, was widely acc...
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| Superior document: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, v. 76 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (560 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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