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Practicing Gnosis Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Editors JohannesvanOort&EinarThomassen EditorialBoard j.d.beduhn–a.d.deconick–w.-p.funk i.gardner–s.n.c.lieu–a.marjanen p.nagel–l.painchaud–b.a.pearson n.a.pedersen–s.g.richter–j.m.robinson m.scopello–j.d.turner–g.wurst VOLUME85 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/nhms Practicing Gnosis Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson Editedby AprilD.DeConick GregoryShaw JohnD.Turner LEIDEN•BOSTON 2013 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100 characterscoveringLatin,IPA,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitablefor useinthehumanities.Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN0929-2470 ISBN978-90-04-25629-3(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-24852-6(e-book) Copyright2013byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishersandMartinusNijhoffPublishers. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. CONTENTS Introduction............................................................ 1 AprilD.DeConick ATRIBUTETOBIRGERA.PEARSON ForBirgerPearson:AScholarWhoBothStudiesandEmbodies Syncretism.......................................................... 7 GeorgeW.E.Nickelsburg ReligionsgeschichtlicheSchule,Religionswissenschaft,Piano,Oboe andBourbon ....................................................... 11 GeraldJamesLarson BirgerPearson:Scholar,ProfessorandMentor.......................... 15 GregoryShaw BirgerAlbertPearson:ABibliography .................................. 19 SECTION1 INITIATORYPRACTICES TheRoadfortheSoulsIsthroughthePlanets:TheMysteriesofthe OphiansMapped................................................... 37 AprilD.DeConick EcstaticReligionintheRomanCultofMithras......................... 75 RogerBeck TheGospelofPhilipasGnosticInitiatoryDiscourse .................... 91 BasvanOs BecomingInvisible:RendingtheVeilandtheHermeneuticofSecrecy intheGospelofPhilip............................................... 113 ElliotWolfson RitualintheSecondBookofJeu......................................... 137 ErinEvans viii contents DeathontheNile:EgyptianCodices,Gnosticism,andEarlyChristian BooksoftheDead .................................................. 161 NicolaDenzeyLewis SECTION2 RECURRENTPRATICES GoingtoChurchwiththeValentinians................................. 183 EinarThomassen Practicing“Repentance”onthePathtoGnosisinExegesisontheSoul 199 MadeleineScopello OpeningtheWayofWriting:SemioticMetaphysicsintheBookof Thoth............................................................... 215 EdwardButler “IWorshipandGlorify”:ManichaeanLiturgyandPietyinKellis’ PrayeroftheEmanations........................................... 249 FernandoBermejoRubio TheManichaeanWeeklyConfession ................................... 271 JasonBeDuhn RitualIngenuityintheMandaeanScrollofExaltedKingship ........... 301 JorunnBuckley SECTION3 THERAPEUTICPRACTICES Natural,Magical,ScientificorReligious?AGuidetoTheoriesof Healing............................................................. 315 NaomiJanowitz AstrologicalMedicineinGnosticTraditions............................ 333 GrantAdamson ThePersistenceofRitualintheMagicalBookofMaryandthe Angels:P.Heid.Inv.Kopt.685 ....................................... 359 MarvinMeyer contents ix ImageandWord:PerformativeRitualandMaterialCultureinthe AramaicIncantationBowls......................................... 377 RebeccaLesses SECTION4 ECSTATICPRACTICES FromBaptismalVisiontoMysticalUnionwiththeOne:TheCaseof theSethianGnostics................................................ 411 JohnD.Turner MarcosianRitualsforProphecyandApolytrosis ....................... 433 NiclasFörster RitualintheHekhalotLiterature ....................................... 449 JamesDavila SECTION5 PHILOSOPHICPRACTICES ThePlatonizingSethianGnosticInterpretationofPlato’sSophist...... 469 ZekeMazur DidPlotinus’“Friends”StillGotoChurch?CommunalRitualsand AscentApocalypses ................................................ 495 MichaelWilliams TheMeaningof“One”:PluralityandUnityinPlotinusandLater Neoplatonism ...................................................... 523 KevinCorrigan TheurgyandthePlatonist’sLuminousBody............................ 537 GregoryShaw Index ................................................................... 559

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