The Thunder: Perfect Mind and The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

The Thunder: Perfect Mind

Name: The Thunder: Perfect Mind
Price: 106.53 GBP
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Author: Celene Lillie
ISBN: 9780230105638

A New Translation and Introduction

by Celene Lillie, Hal Taussig

Hardback
202 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
14.3 x 21.1 x 1.6 cm

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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. Approaching the text from socio-historical, literary, and postmodern gender-theoretical frameworks, the editors situate Thunder as an early Christian text - away from the now suspect category of "Gnosticism" - and offer conclusions on its possible ancient meanings, as well as its interpretive possibilities for the present moment.