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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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Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit o
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