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    <namePart>Lied, Liv Ingeborg.</namePart>
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  <tableOfContents>Pt. 1. Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi and related Gnostic writings. From the bowels of Hell to Draco : the mysteries of the Peratics / April D. DeConick -- Interprétation d'une formule barbare chez les gnostiques valentiniens d'après le Contre les hérésies d'Irénée, I, 21,3 / Jean-Daniel Dubois, Flavia Ruani -- Mystery and secrecy in The secret revelation of John / Karen L. King -- Sethian books of the Nag Hammadi library as secret books / Antti Marjanen -- "Joseph le charpentier planta un jardin ... " (EvPhil 73,8-9) : Sens apparent et sens caché dans l'Évangile selon Philippe / Louis Painchaud -- Invocation et glorification du Nom divin dans le Livre sacré du grand Esprit invisible ou Évangile égyptien (NHC III,2; NHC IV,2) / Anne Pasquier -- The term [mysterion] in Coptic-Manichaean texts / Nils Arne Pedersen -- Secrets et révélation dans le codex Tchacos / Madeleine Scopello -- I tell you a mystery : from hidden to revealed in Sethian revelation, ritual, and protology / John D. Turner --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>pt. 2. Mystery and secrecy in other Christian practices, text traditions, and material culture. Mystery and secrecy in the Egyptian desert : esotericism and Evagrius of Pontus / David Brakke -- Secrecy in the gospel of John / Ismo Dunderberg -- Living in tombs : the secret of an early Christian mystical experience / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- Mystery and authority in the writings of Shenoute / Hugo Lundhaug -- Mystery and secrecy in Paul / Birger A. Pearson -- Mystère et mystères dans les Actes de Thomas / Paul-Hubert Poirier -- Revisiting the Ichthys : a suggestion concerning the origins of Christological fish symbolism / Tuomas Rasimus --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>pt. 3. Mystery and secrecy in non-Christian practices, text traditions, and material culture. Secrecy and initiation in the Mithraic communities of fourth century Rome / Jonas Bjørnebye -- Initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries : a "thin" description / Jan N. Bremmer -- The notion of mysteries in the formation of hermetic tradition / Christian H. Bull -- Those who know and those who don't : mystery, instruction, and knowledge in 2 Baruch / Liv Ingeborg Lied -- The 'Mithras liturgy" as mystery and magic / Marvin Meyer -- The secret hymn in hermetic texts / Jørgen Podemann Sørensen -- Cognitive and evolutionary approaches to ancient rituals : reflections on recent theories and their relevance for the historian of religion / Risto Uro.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and John D. Turner.</note>
  <note>Eighteen contributions in English and 5 in French.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
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      <title>Nag Hammadi codices</title>
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    <topic>Gnostic literature</topic>
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    <topic>Gnosticism</topic>
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    <topic>Manichaeism</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BT1391 .M97 2012eb</classification>
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