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9789004256293

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Practicing Gnosis

Edited by April D. DeConick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner

The essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead, this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy. This ...

€173.00$237.00

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9789004212077

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Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices

Edited by Christian H. Bull, University of Bergen, Liv Ingeborg Lied MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, and John D. Turner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Drawing on a wide array of sources, this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion, with an emphasis on Gnosticism, Christianity, and Paganism.

€310.00$402.00

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9789004108240

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The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years

Edited by John D. Turner and Anne McGuire

This volume contains 22 papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 1995 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library, with special focus on the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Thomas, and the Gospel of Philip.

€133.00$172.00

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9789004158412

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Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern

Edited by Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner

By questioning the modern categories of Plato and Platonism, this book offers new ways of reading the Platonic dialogues and the many traditions that resonate in them from Antiquity to Post-Modernity.

€123.00$159.00

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9789004177949

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Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage

Edited by John D. Turner and Kevin Corrigan

Volume 2 examines and establishes for the first time evidence for a significant knowledge of the Parmenides in Philo, Clement, and patristic sources. It offers an extensive and balanced analysis of the case for and against the various possible attributions of date and authorship of the Anonymous ...

€130.00$168.00

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9789004169302

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Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage

Edited by John D. Turner and Kevin Corrigan

The theme of Volume 1 is the dissolution of firm boundaries for thinking about the tradition of Parmenides interpretation from the Old Academy through Middle Platonism and Gnosticism. The volume suggests a radically different interpretation of the history of thought from Plato to Proclus than is ...