Thèse 3 cycle--Sc. des religions--Paris IV, 1972. Titre de soutenance : Adam, Éros et le phénix dans la cosmogonie du 5e traité du codex II, découvert près de Nag Hammadi. / En appendice, texte des 4e et 5e traités du codex II de Nag Hammadi : "Hypostase des archontes" et "Écrit sans titre", appelé aussi parfois "Sur l'origine du monde" Bibliogr. p. 369-381. Index.

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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Bonn--Katholisch-theologische Fakultät, 1985. / Bibliogr. p. 13-32. Index.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Faculty of theology--Helsinki--University, 1996. / Bibliogr. p. 226-246. Index.

Approximately sixteen texts in the Nag Hammadi codices can be classified as apocalypses. The principal concern of this study is to determine whether the genre of a selection of these Gnostic apocalypses was based on the traditional apocalypses (Jewish and Christian). In the first two chapters a new definition of the apocalypse is proposed and developed in relation to the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. This definition states that an apocalypse is essentially a literary work structured around a first person narrative account of a mediated revelation. Chapters three to five are devoted to a study of those Gnostic texts that recount revelations which the risen Christ is supposed to have given his disciples. After a study of the literature itself (chapter 3), there is a critique of Rudolph's hypothesis that the genre was based on Graeco-Roman dialogue genres (chapter 4). The fifth chapter sets forth and examines the two most probable ways to account for the genre of this literature: 1. the genre could have been based on the traditional apocalypse; 2. it is possible that the genre was created on the basis of post-passion traditions and was not directly modelled on any antecedent genre. In chapters six and seven it is argued that there is sufficient evidence to establish that the authors of Apocalypse of Peter (VII, 3) and the Apocalypse of Paul (V, 2) based their genres on the traditional apocalypse. The final chapter is devoted to a study of The Apocalypse of Adam (V, 5). This text contains elements characteristic of two traditional genres--the testament and the apocalypse. However in its present form ApocAd must be classified as a testament rather than an apocalypse. The last part of this chapter sets forth new evidence which establishes that ApocAd originated in Gnostic circles which had been influenced by Christian and Christian Gnostic traditions.

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2012-2013. / La Prière de l'apôtre Paul (NH I, 1) est une courte prière de requête inscrite sur la page de garde de l'un des treize codices découverts au milieu du XXe siècle près de Nag Hammadi, en Egypte. Comme pour la plupart des textes qui composent le corpus de Nag Hammadi, l'auteur, la date de composition originale et le parcours rédactionel de ce document sont difficiles, voire impossibles à déterminer de manière précise. Dans l'introduction, le mémoire situe la Prière de l'apôtre Paul dans son contexte matériel, historique, littéraire et doctrinal. Il en donne par la suite une édition critique et une traduction française, lesquelles contiennent quelques nouvelles restitutions et lectures qui améliorent notre compréhension du texte. Il fournit ensuite un commentaire, afin d'éclaircir certaines questions philologiques ou doctrinales. Un index des termes coptes et gréco-coptes y est également inclus.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Nguzu - um estudo sobre identidade do povo do santo no culto de matriz Kongo e Angola.pdf: 1809886 bytes, checksum: 2778ae8985ee43f351f2f5ea9c43b7a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This study aims to analyze the experience of identities of the "povo do santo", with a focus on experiences in the "candombl?" Kongo and Angola. For this, we seek to situate Bantu culture in the context of restructuring processes of the African religiosity in Brazil, as well as in the scenario of social changes that influence the construction of identities. The first chapter introduces the peoples of Africa, Bantu and Sudanese, through historical data and sociological, about the time of slavery, from cultural and religious. The next chapter deals with the "candombl?" as a research object, from the point of view of researchers who assess methodologically the experiences of initiation into the cult, and my positioning, as person divinized, and also a researcher. The third section shows some nuances that give authenticity to the cult of matrix Kongo and Angola, comparing them with the cult to "Orix?s". In addition, describe, briefly, the main deities in ?candombl?? Bantu and "nag?". The fourth and fifth chapters describe the exercises for field in the state of S?o Paulo. A narrative brings the participation of the researcher in an international meeting to discuss the identity of the ?candombl?? Angola; another shows a schematic of the ethnographic experience of identity within a temple of Bantu "candombl?". Both activities provide reflections and comparison of data. The sixth chapter is a review of the literature on the notions of identity developed by contemporary theorists in the Social Sciences, even though the concept discussed across disciplines. In addition, references on the movements of Africanization of the "candombl?" reinforce the employment of a perspective anthropological research on the topic. Finally, the last two chapters are devoted to the examination of the empirical exercises, where they sought to highlight the importance of Bantu culture and religious identity, from which they were extracted some considerations which point to the need for continuity of research on other aspects that comprise the African religions. / Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar a viv?ncia de identidades do ?povo do santo?, com foco em experi?ncias no candombl? de matriz Kongo e Angola. Para isto, busca situar a cultura banta no contexto dos processos de reestrutura??o da religiosidade africana no Brasil, bem como no cen?rio de mudan?as sociais, que influenciam a constru??o de identidades. O primeiro cap?tulo apresenta os povos origin?rios africanos, bantos e sudaneses, atrav?s de dados hist?ricos e sociol?gicos sobre a ?poca da escravid?o, a partir de aspectos culturais e religiosos. O cap?tulo seguinte trata do candombl? como objeto de pesquisa, sob o ponto de vista de pesquisadores que avaliam metodologicamente as experi?ncias de inicia??o no culto, e de meu posicionamento, como iniciado e, tamb?m, pesquisador. O terceiro cap?tulo mostra algumas nuances que conferem autenticidade ao culto de matriz Kongo e Angola, comparando-as com o culto aos Orix?s. Al?m disso, se descrevem, brevemente, as principais divindades cultuadas nos candombl?s bantos e nag?s. O quarto e quinto cap?tulos relatam os exerc?cios de campo no estado de S?o Paulo. Um traz narrativas da participa??o do pesquisador em um encontro internacional para discutir a identidade do candombl? Angola; outro apresenta um esquema etnogr?fico da viv?ncia de identidade dentro de um terreiro de candombl? banto. Ambas as atividades proporcionaram reflex?es e cotejamento de dados. O sexto cap?tulo ? uma revis?o bibliogr?fica sobre as no??es de identidade desenvolvidas por te?ricos contempor?neos das Ci?ncias Sociais, mesmo sendo o conceito debatido interdisciplinarmente. Em complemento, refer?ncias sobre os movimentos de (re) africaniza??o do candombl? refor?am o emprego de uma perspectiva socioantropol?gica na investiga??o do tema. Finalmente, os ?ltimos dois cap?tulos s?o dedicados ao exame dos exerc?cios emp?ricos, onde se procurou evidenciar a expressividade da cultura banta e sua identidade religiosa, de onde foram extra?das algumas considera??es que apontam para a necessidade de continuidade de pesquisas sobre outras vertentes que compreendem as religi?es de matriz africana.

Humboldt-Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2005. / Literaturverz. S. [419] - 436.

This essay aims to investigate the role of fate in the Apocryphon of John – an issue which, with a few exceptions, has been surprisingly overlooked by modern scholarship. In the few modern publications available on the subject, the concept of fate has previously solely been examined in the light of the Greek Philosophical schools, often neglecting texts from a Jewish-Hellenistic context.  Here it is argued that the depiction of fate in the Apocryphon of John, as well as the dualism between Pronoia – the providence of god – and its negative counterpart, the imitating spirit, is closely related to Jewish speculations about external influence and free will in literature such as the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Community Rule from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Furthermore, it is argued that the author – much like Philo of Alexandria - presents Pronoia – the providence of god - as an extension of God, a concept which preserves his transcendence and at the same time allows him to intervene in earthly activities. Similarly, the imitating spirit, which is also presented as identical to fate, works as an extension of the demiurge. As a result of this reading of the text, the dualism between God’s providential activities carried out by Pronoia and the influence of fate over mankind, carried out by the imitating spirit, becomes more evident and radical. It has recently been argued that the discourse of enslavement under fate only was applied to “the other” and that it was used primarily to draw boundary demarcations between the own group and the ones outside it. In this essay, I go against this hypothesis and suggest that the threat of enslavement under fate primarily appears in conjunction with paraenetic discourse and is used to exhort the followers to emulate a certain behavior.

Scholarship to date on the Nag Hammadi Codices has been predominantly concerned with establishing the compositional history and doctrinal affiliations of each tractate within the collection. Much less attention has been paid to the library as a fourth-century collection of texts, which must have been understood by the compiler/s of the codices as having ideological coherence, and overarching messages. The present thesis is first and foremost an attempt to address this deficiency. Due to the site of the codices’ discovery in the Egyptian desert being in close proximity to the Pachomian monastery at Phbow, the suggestion was made that perhaps these monks were once the owners of the collection, forced to purge their monastery of these texts due to the increasing concern of the Alexandrian Church over the circulation of what it viewed to be ‘heretical’ religious documents. This ‘Pachomian connection’ was substantiated mainly by the apparent promotion of ascetic practice and a value placed on knowledge both in the Pachomian movement and many of the tractates from Nag Hammadi, as well as the presence of some monastic documents in the waste paper used to strengthen the covers of the codices. None are sufficient to conclude a relationship between the two. Moreover, scholarly conception of the Nag Hammadi Library as a representative of ‘Gnosticism,’ which since the critiques of this category by the likes of Williams (1996) and King (2004) has been something of a taboo term, meant that inquiry into connections with Pachomian monastic literature was too invested in searching for so-called ‘Gnostic’ overlap. On the contrary, this work argues that in order to gain a better understanding of why the Nag Hammadi texts were collected and collated in the way that they were, and how and why they might have been utilised by Christian inhabitants of the Egyptian desert, they must be viewed primarily as a fourth-century Christian collection. The thesis attempts to offer a fresh perspective on the question of monastic usage by viewing the Nag Hammadi texts simply as part of the Egyptian Christian landscape, rather than as a ‘heretical’ invasion of it. In order to conduct a controlled and sufficiently detailed analysis, this thesis examines one sub-collection of the Nag Hammadi Library – Codex II, alongside contemporaneous Pachomian monastic literature, and suggests agreement on various centralised issues. Building on the suggestions of Michael Williams (1996) and James Robinson (2004), that meaningful order can be detected in the arrangement of the Nag Hammadi Codices, the thesis contends that Nag Hammadi Codex II develops certain key themes through the particular sequencing of its tractates. Each of these, it is argued, would have been attractive to a fourth-century Pachomian monastic readership. Firstly, asceticism must be moderated so as not to lose sight of its spiritual value amidst competitive arrogance. Secondly, one’s duty to share and encourage the promulgation of spiritual truths among one’s brethren is of vital importance. Thirdly, identification as an ‘elite’ spiritually superior individual is in no way predetermined, as older definitions of ‘Gnosticism’ have suggested, but based entirely on one’s conscious choice to leave behind worldly pursuits.