Nag Hammadi and Related Literature

2019 ◽  
pp. 369-386
Author(s):  
Anne McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Nag Hammadi Library

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.

THE SOCIAL TERMINOLOGY IN THE NOVEL “THE SQUIRRELS DANCING” HUMAN RELATIONS AS A MODEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 241-246
Author(s):  
Aas Akeel Kadhum AL MOUSAWI ◽  
Hanan Fadil JUBAIR
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Clear View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Novel ◽  
Time Periods

The Squirrels Dancing is considered a social novel in all its details because their temporal movements and personal relationships vary with them, making them an ideal model for tracking these terms. The study of social expressions in a novel that represents a diverse period to give a clear view of the terms development used in these different time periods, the change of their significance, their discursive requirements, and the depth of social relations according to the terms used in the novel. Accordingly, the novel's enriching with many social terms will identify the research in general human relations and family in particular. From the secondary title of the novel (Tales of the Shahbandar's Grove of Mustafa Khan, from which the memory is not lost), the importance of relations is evident in telling the stories and mentioning the orchard, and that the Shahbandar is one of the well-known and prestigious figures in society. So we find the father, mother, grandfather, friend, and some characters featured in the details of the novel.

Reading Selected Sagas

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-147
Author(s):  
Carl Phelpstead
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The West ◽  
Njals Saga ◽  
Selection Of

Chapter 4 examines a selection of the most admired and most widely studied sagas of Icelanders. It demonstrates how the source traditions discussed in chapter 2 and the thematic concerns examined in chapter 3 come together in narrative explorations of identity. Themes of gender and sexuality, family, human and non-human relations, friendship, and more are explored in brief yet thorough overviews of these Icelandic stories. The texts discussed in detail include: Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka (“The Tale of Audun from the West Fjords”), the poets’ sagas (skáldasögur), Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, the Vínland sagas, outlaw sagas (Gísla saga and Grettis saga), Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga.

Ophite Gnosticism, Sethianism and the Nag Hammadi Library

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-263
Author(s):  
Tuomas Rasimus
Keyword(s):  
Early Form ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Nag Hammadi Library ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Exact Relationship

AbstractThis article discusses the definition of Ophite Gnosticism, its relationship to Sethian Gnosticism, and argues that Eugnostos, Soph. Jes. Chr., Orig. World, Hyp. Arch. and Ap. John not only have important links with each other but also draw essentially on the mythology the heresiologists called that of the Ophites. Before the Nag Hammadi findings, Ophite Gnosticism was often seen as an important and early form of Gnosticism, rooted in Jewish soil, and only secondarily Christianized. Today, not only are similar claims made of Sethian Gnosticism, but also some of the above-mentioned texts are classified as Sethian. In many recent studies, the Ophite mythology is connected with Sethian Gnosticism, even though the exact relationship between these two forms of Gnosticism has remained unclear. It is argued here that the Sethian Gnostic authors drew on earlier forms of Gnosticism, especially on the Ophite mythology, in composing some of the central Sethian texts.

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