A story of the soul's journey in the Nag Hammadi Library : : a study of Authentikos Logos (NHC VI, 3) / / Ulla Tervahauta.

• Superior document: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments (NTOA/StUNT) ; v.107
• VerfasserIn: Tervahauta, Ulla,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments (NTOA/StUNT)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgements; I. Introduction; 1. The Approach of This Study; 1.1 An Overview of the Contents of Authentikos Logos; 2. Previous Studies of Authentikos Logos; 2.1 Editions and Translations; 2.2 From a Gnostic to a Christian Approach: Studies from the 1970s to the Present; 3. The Contents of This Work; II. The Background of the Writing; 1. On the Manuscript, Language, and Genre; 1.1 Manuscript; 1.2 Language; 1.3 Genre; 2. Date and Historical Background; 2.1 The Question of the Date; 2.2 Christianity in Late Ancient Egypt

3. The Scriptures in Authentikos Logos3.1 "The soul is fleeing upwards to her treasure, where her mind is"; 3.2 "The light that does not set"; 4. Summary; III. The Journey of the Fallen Soul in Authentikos Logos; 1. Two Nag Hammadi Stories of the Soul; 1.1 The Exegesis on the Soul: Storyline; 1.2 Authentikos Logos and the Exegesis on the Soul Compared.; 2. Authentikos Logos, Wisdom Myth and other Valentinian Themes; 3. Fallen Souls: Platonic background, Origen and Plotinus; 3.1 Plato on the Immortality of the Soul; 3.2 Origen on the Minds Cooling into Souls

3.3 Plotinus: the Soul as God's daughter4. Summary; IV. The Attributes of the Soul in Authentikos Logos; 1. The Invisible Soul ; 2. The Pneumatic Soul; 3. The Material Soul; 4. The Rational Soul; 5. Summary; V. Matter in Authentikos Logos; 1. Background: vkg in Ancient Philosophical Discourse; 2. References to Matter in Authentikos Logos; 2.1 Matter and Material Substance in Authentikos Logos 22 and 23; 2.2 Matter Attacks the Soul and Makes it Material; 2.3 The Soul Gives Birth to the Offspring of Matter; 2.4 The Wheat and the Chaff; 3. Summary; VI. The Body and the Soul's Contest

1. The Descent, Life in Body, and the Contest of the Soul1.1 The Soul's Descent to a Life in a Body; 1.2 Asceticism in Authentikos Logos; 2. The Soul's Ascent; 2.1 The Slave Traders in Authentikos Logos; 2.2 The Spiritual Body: A Resurrection Body or the Soul's Pneumatic Vehicle?; 2.3 The Soul's Ascent in Authentikos Logos Compared with the Apocalypse of Paul, the First Apocalypse of James and the Gospel of Mary; 2.4 Asclepius and Antony's Vision; 3. Summary; VII. Conclusions; Bibliography; 1. Primary Sources; 1.1 Nag Hammadi and Related Writings: Editions, Translations, Commentaries

1.2 Ancient Authors and Writings: Editions, Translations, Commentaries2. Secondary Sources; Appendix: Translation of Authentikos Logos from Coptic into English; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Modern Authors