Nag Hammadi and Related Literature

This essay examines the imagery of gender and sexuality in four documents from the Nag Hammadi library. The selected works share a religious emphasis on the saving power of religious knowledge or gnōsis, but represent distinct literary genres and differing religious perspectives on gender, sexuality...

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Main Author: McGuire, Anne 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2019
In: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Year: 2019, Pages: 371-386
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gnosis / Gnostic / Mythology / Nag Hammadi / Redemption
IxTheo Classification:BF Gnosticism
HC New Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B salvific union
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:This essay examines the imagery of gender and sexuality in four documents from the Nag Hammadi library. The selected works share a religious emphasis on the saving power of religious knowledge or gnōsis, but represent distinct literary genres and differing religious perspectives on gender, sexuality, and divine–human relations. The essay analyzes each text’s uses of gender imagery in literary context and in relation to key religious ideas, such as the relation of the divine and human; social relations between individuals or groups; and the experiential domain of ritual, religious experience, and/or sexual relations. It also considers the ways these four texts illustrate some of the distinctive ways in which Nag Hammadi literature employs the imagery of gender and sexuality to articulate distinctive conceptions of difference and to engender salvation among their knowing readers and hearers.
ISBN:0190213418
Contains:Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213398.013.17