The prayer of thanksgiving VI,7: 63,33 - 65,7 (TPOT)
This short, almost perfectly preserved Hermetic prayer expresses in carefully constructed liturgical language the gratitude of one who has received deifying knowledge. Although set off with decorations like those regularly used with titles in the Nag Hammadi codices, the heading, "This is the p...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill Academic Publishers
2012
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| In: | In: The Coptic Gnostic Library - A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, volume 3 |
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Coptic Gnostic Library |
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Gnostic literature
B Nag Hammadi Codices |
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| Summary: | This short, almost perfectly preserved Hermetic prayer expresses in carefully constructed liturgical language the gratitude of one who has received deifying knowledge. Although set off with decorations like those regularly used with titles in the Nag Hammadi codices, the heading, "This is the prayer that they spoke," was originally only an incipit. Together with the concluding statement (65,3-7), this heading forms a narrative framework for the prayer. The location of this tractate suggests that the scribe of Codex VI intended it as an appendix to the immediately preceding tractate, Disc. 8-9, where the knowledge for which this prayer gives thanks has been revealed |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004228900_cgl_aTPOT |