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The Thunder: Perfect Mind
A New Translation and Introduction
Taussig, H/Calaway, J/Kotrosits, M et al
ISBN/EAN: 9780230105638
Umbreit-Nr.: 9046821
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 189 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 19.01.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
€ 149,79
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- Zusatztext
- This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind - a poem of 'I am' statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream culture. This book offers a fresh, current translation (with detailed Coptic annotations) and ten chapters of introductory analysis of the text.
- Kurztext
- ACCESSIBLE - The public has already shown a wide interest in Thunder, but has not had any sustained access to scholarship concerning itRETHINKS CONTEXT - This powerful and evocative poem has been segregated into the dubious category of Gnosticism for little reason, but needs to be seen - as the book proposes - as not only part of a more complex portrait of early Christianity, but as a gripping statement (in both the ancient and contemporary worlds) that rearranges thinking about identityCONTEMPORARY TRANSLATION - The available translations of Thunder have been archaic. This new and thoroughly annotated translation makes the text spring to life for the contemporary readerCONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION - Thunder has already attracted a great deal of interest because of its powerful female divine voice. This book honors that attention, but offers more sustainable and theoretically viable categories for thinking about its significance and contribution to the meaning(s) of gender; Thunder has been treated a-politically and a-socially. It has been read in a relatively romantic and mystifying manner. This book brings it into conversations about ancient and contemporary social and political relationshipsEAGERLY EXPECTED - The translation has been expected by the biblical academic community for over a year. This book will continue to establish Palgrave as a cutting-edge publisher of biblically related texts and scholarship
- Autorenportrait
- Author Hal Taussig: Hal Taussig holds professorial rank at both the Recontructionist Rabbinical College and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, USA. His 13 books include A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts; In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity; Re-Reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma (with Maia Kotrosits); and Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table (with Dennis Smith). Author Maia Kotrosits: Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion, queer studies, and women's studies at Denison University, USA.