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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Paul Linjamaa
Paul Linjamaa
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Lunds Universitet, Sweden

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The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice
 , pp. 261 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Index

Adam, 32
creation of, 133, 201
fall of, 210
Alexandria, 133
council of, 207
theological tradition of, 208
alphabet, 20, 122, 131, 158, 159, 167, 168, 195
Greek, 162, 197
maxims, 195
spiritual, 162
al-Samman, Muhammad Ali, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62
Ammonius, 132
amulets, 31, 168, 169
Antioch, 195
Antony the Great, saint, 103, 104, 175, 183, 222
apocalypse, 112, 125
apocryphal writings, 6, 11, 13, 16, 100, 146, 230
archons, 143, 154
Arian controversy, 116, 117
Askew codex, 66
Athanasius of Alexandria, 175
thirty-ninth festal letter, 6, 7, 11, 16
Autogenes, 125
Bagnall, Roger, 37, 38, 79
baptism, 124, 134, 155
Barbelo, 106, 122, 134
black market of antiquities, 1, 49, 50, 53, 57
blood sacrifice, 24
Blount, Justine Ariel, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65
Bodmer Papyri. See Dishna Papers
book exchange network
monastic, 11, 80, 81, 192
Border TV, 59
Brakke, David, 182
Britan
colonising India, 58
British Library, 199
British Museum, 199
Buddhism, 64, 65
Bull, Christian, 16, 118, 143, 220, 230
Burns, Dylan, 56, 64, 66, 112, 113
Cappadocia, 195
Chrysostom, John, 164, 169, 207
Clement of Alexandria, 96, 97, 208
colonialism, 56
Coptic Museum in Cairo, 7
corone, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 117, 118, 119, 228
corruption
political, 62
textual, 20, 41, 42
cross, the, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 186, 229
cruces ansatae, 172, 173
Latin, 172, 173
staurogram, 173
demiurge, 110, 156
demiurgical texts, 15, 232
demons
fight against, 17, 18, 181
Denzey Lewis, Nicola, 8, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65
desert, 229
as a place of demons, 103, 114, 121, 176, 186
desolet, 194
determinism, 45, 162, 213
deterministic, 45
diplai, 4, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 100, 102, 104, 105, 110, 111, 117, 118, 119, 228
Dishna Papers, 14, 15, 231, 232
Dodds, E. R., 27, 29
Doresse, Jean, 52, 53
Doxomedon (Lord of glory), 122, 125
education, 48
antique, 193
basic, 194
classical, 195
early Christian, 225
higher level, 30, 214
ideals, 194
illiteracy, 159, 194
in antiquity, 30
in monasteries, 158, 194, 227
literacy, 30, 196
roman, 30
social aspects of, 194
textual, 31, 87
Egypt, 6, 12, 13, 31, 42, 54, 57, 64, 99, 165, 180, 184, 194, 208, 219, 220
Cairo, 50, 52
desert, 121, 194
Eastern, 65
hieroglyphs, 143
Lower, 209
religion, 215, 216
Roman, 186
rural, 55, 57, 59, 61
Upper, 1, 18, 50, 52, 119, 220
ekthesis, 91
Emmel, Stephen, 8, 70
emotions
ancient theory of, 101, 144
destructive, 99, 180
Epiphanius of Salamis, 207
esoteric, 8, 46, 65, 152, 231
modern groups, 46
Western esotericism, 46
Eudorus, 132
Europe, 66
Evagrius Ponticus, 99, 102, 103, 207
Eve, 32
existentialism, 27, 29
Fate, 217
fear of, 27
influence of, 134, 151
Fatherhood (ⲧⲙ̄ⲛⲧⲉⲓⲱⲧ), 11, 184
five seals (Sethian rite), 124
Foucault, Michel, 25, 26
free will, 213, 214
Gnostic Bible, the, 66
Gnosticism, 13, 15, 19, 28, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 64, 66, 67, 147, 215, 226
and Orientalism, 65
invention of, 47, 64
problems with the term, 44, 45
Gnostics, the, 43
Goehring, James E., 209
Goodacre, Mark, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63, 65
Graeco-Roman
education, 30
literature, 32
philosophy, 27
religion, 28, 35, 120
guru, 65
Harnack, Adolf von, 28, 43
Hegel, G. W. F., 25
Hellenism, 113
Egyptian, 143, 166
period, 24
syncretic, 43
wisdom tradition, 64
heresiology, 209
genre, 63
writers of, 45, 46
heresy, 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, 47, 226
discourse of, 29, 48, 65
material history of, 232
Hermes Trismegistus, 121
Hermetism, 143, 158, 216
setting, 166
texts, 121, 140, 143, 146, 151, 153, 157, 163, 165
heterodoxy, 13, 17, 18, 63, 121, 232
hieroglyphs, 143
Hinduism, 58, 64
Holy Spirit, the, 146
homoioteleuton, 81
Hurtado, Larry, 37, 170, 171, 173
illiteracy
Christian, 31
imitatio dei, 111, 114, 228
India
under colonialism, 58
religion, 58
Irenaeus of Lyon, 200, 206
Jerome, saint, 207
Jerusalem, 23
Jesus, 110, 111, 125, 152, 164, 179, 180, 202, 204, 207, 215
and apostles, 146
as preacher, 23
as teacher, 28
death of, 179, 180
descent, 179
followers, 58
movement, 32, 34
nomina sacra, 175
on the cross, 179
protector, 176
relation to God, 116
return of, 34
Saviour, 206
the Son, 206
the word, 112
jinn, 53, 55, 60, 61
John the Baptist, 125, 164
Kalyptos, 106
Keith, Chris, 29, 33
Khosroyev, Alexandr, 8, 9, 10, 44
King, Richard, 58
kollemata, 72
late antiquity
religious change in, 26
religious life in, 23, 24, 27, 227
religious texts in, 41
scholars of, 26
lectors, 31, 87
library
monastic, 15, 80, 187, 192, 216, 220, 229
Nag Hammadi codices as a, 148, 165, 187, 231
Pachomian, 232
Logos, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 104, 156, 252
as creator, 98, 156
as offspring of Wisdom, 98
as reason, 150
as Saviour, 156
as the youngest Aeon, 98, 99
Macarius the Alexandrian, 163
magic
Christian, 120, 121
letter, 18, 228
letters and sounds, 20
vowel, 120, 121, 228
Marcion, 36
Marcus Varro, 133
Marsanes, the prophet, 125, 126
Martin, Dale, 147, 158
Mediterranean, 36
Basin, 23
Middle East, 66
Moderatus of Gades, 133
Monad, 133
multi-quire codex, 20, 68, 70, 75, 84
mystagogue, 125, 157, 166
New Age, 66
New Philology, 29, 39, 40, 41, 48, 225
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 26
nomina sacra, 4, 20, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 178, 186, 228, 229, 232
Nongbri, Brent, 15, 19, 38, 39, 49, 50, 56
Occidentalism, 56
Ogdoad, 122, 140, 215
Orientalism, 19, 49, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 225, 226
auto-Orientalism, 64, 66
backdoor Orientalism, 65
Origen of Alexandria, 35, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 133, 207, 208, 209, 210, 214
Origenism, 118, 207, 208, 210, 214
anti-Origenism, 207, 208, 209, 210, 214
Origenist controversy, 100, 208
orthodoxy, 13, 17, 18, 63, 67
Pabau, monastery at, 115
Pachomius
letters of, 162
Pachomius the Great, 5, 16, 20, 114, 115, 117, 164, 166, 197, 198, 208, 209, 228
cipher of, 161, 162
letters of, 161, 166
on Origen, 209
rules of, 181, 197, 221, 231
vita, 162, 208
Pagels, Elaine, 54, 59, 103
paideia, 35, 158, 159, 193, 194, 208
palaeography, 4, 38, 76
palaeograpy, 76
Palestine, 195
Palladius, 83, 163, 164, 197
paradise, 32, 155
paragraph markers, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 109, 110, 111, 112
Parrott, Douglas, 215, 217, 219
Paul, the Apostle, 121, 145, 146, 154, 189
anthropology, 101, 102
legacy of, 147, 155
letters, 40, 104, 189
Phbow, monastery at, 162, 166
Philo of Alexandria, 98, 132, 133, 150
planets
and numerology, 132, 143
Plato, 25, 132, 140, 189
Platonism, 125
Porphyry, 133
post-colonialism, 19, 57
Post-Nicene theology, 117, 193
Pronoia, 134
Protennoia, 134, 135, 136, 137
Protophanes, 107
Providence. See Pronoia
Pythagoreanism, 133
philosopher, 132, 133
theorem, 139
Quispel, Guilles, 59, 60, 62
rabbinic literature, 37
radiocarbon dating, 38, 39, 69
Renaissance, 46
Robinson, James, 6, 52, 55, 56, 59, 60, 63, 75
Roman
religion, 24, 168
Roman Empire, 30
Roman period
high, 27
late, 27
Romans, the, 23, 132
Rome, 133
Sahidic, 201, 209
Subachmimic, 201, 209
Said, Edward, 57
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 58
Saviour, 95
Autogenes, 125
coming of, 209
Jesus, 102, 110, 154, 179, 180, 210
Protennoia, 134
scriptura continua, 81, 82
Septuagint, 132, 182
Seth, 122, 124, 125
Sethianism, 13, 121, 158
setting, 166
texts, 121, 124, 125, 134, 143, 151, 153, 157, 163, 183, 216
seven, the number
day of creation, 133
numerology, 14, 109, 113, 122, 125, 130, 132, 133, 143, 151, 187
spheres, 143
seventh, 133
shame–honour society, 61
silence
angelic song, 157, 167
divine condition, 157
Father of, 125, 138, 157
speaking in, 158, 163
silent reading, 32
slaves
as lectors, 31
as scribes, 82
human condition in the body, 150
Smith, Geoffrey, 209, 210
Smith, Jonathan Z., 23, 24
Socrates, 24, 25
Sophia, Wisdom of God, 98, 156
spheres
eight planetary level, 140, 146
planets, 143
structure of the cosmos, 146
spiritual warfare, 21, 96, 97, 103, 104, 117, 118, 169, 181, 184, 185, 186, 229, 231
syncretism, 8, 43, 44, 47
Theodorus of Cyrene, 140
Theodore of Tabennese, 16, 115, 116
Trasullus, 132
Turner, Eric, 37, 38, 86
UNESCO, 6
Valentinianism, 96, 98, 99, 100, 121, 148, 156, 157, 158
setting, 166
texts, 96, 151, 152, 155, 157, 158, 163, 183
Valentinians, 206
Valentinus of Alexandria, 206
Veilleux, Armand, 162, 166, 209
Wallenstein, Michael, 6
Watts, Edward, 30
Williams, Michael A., 44, 45, 183, 191, 199
Wipszycka, Ewa, 8, 12, 13
Wisdom. See Sophia, Wisdom of God
Wisse, Frederik, 6, 205
Xenocrates, 132
Zoroaster, 64
Zostrianos, the prophet, 109

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