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100 1 $aLaFargue, Michael,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLanguage and gnosis :$bthe opening scenes of the Acts of Thomas /$cMichael LaFargue.
264 1 $aPhiladelphia :$bFortress Press,$c[1985.]
264 4 $c©1985
300 $axvii, 217 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aHarvard dissertations in religion ;$vno. 18
500 $aRevision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard, 1977.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages xv-xvii).
505 0 $aChapter 1: Special compositional devices related to speeches, prayers, and hymns -- 1.1 General principles of the relation of narrative and speech material -- 1.2 The bride's speech -- 1.3 Thomas's address to the demons -- 1.4 Internal speech organization -- 1.5 The bridegroom's speech -- 1.6 Thomas's prayer -- 1.7 An Epiklesis -- 1.8 Summary -- Chapter 2: Compositional devices common to narrative and speeches -- 2.1 Recurrence of similar elements -- 2.2 The deliberate use of unusual language and imagery -- 2.3 Parallels between larger units -- 2.4 Allusions to other traditions -- 2.5 Congnates and assonance -- Chapter 3: Thomas's trip to India -- 3.1 The influence of traditional themes and forms -- 3.2 General observations on chapters 1-10 -- 3.3 The dividing of the world among the apostles -- 3.4 The sending of Thomas to India -- 3.5 The selling scene -- 3.6 Thomas's departure -- 3.7 The invitation scene -- 3.8 The interchange with the guests -- 3.9 The anointing scene -- 3.10 The flutist -- 3.11 The wine pourer -- 3.12 Summary -- Chapter Four: The wedding hymn -- 4.1 History of research -- 4.2 Acts Thom. 108.12 -- 109.4 -- 4.3 Acts Thom. 109.5-14 -- 4.4 Acts Thom. 109.14 -- 110.3 -- Acts Thom. 110.3 -- 9 -- 4.6 Acts Thom. 110.9 -- 15 -- 4.7 Acts Thom. 110.15 -- 20 -- 4.8 Summary -- 4.9 The religio-historical background of the original material of the hymn -- Chapter Five: The implications of the foregoing analyses -- 5.1 The double presentation of the "world" -- 5.2 Thomas's transformation as initiation -- 5.3 The imaginative logic of the passage -- 5.4 The Gnostic problematic -- Chapter Six: The Christ prayer and the events preceding it -- 6.1 The events following the hymn -- 6.2 The king's request -- 6.3 The metaphors of Acts Thom. 114.5 -- 10 -- 6.4 The initiation schema -- 6.5 The prayer and the narrative -- 6.6 -- Making divine present in the world -- 6.7 Salvation as liberation and destruction of evil -- 6.8 The divine presence in the world -- 6.9 The ultimate significance of the Christ prayer -- Chapter Seven: Gnostic hermeneutics in the Acts of Thomas -- 7.1 A more exact method of exegetical hermeneutics -- 7.2 Gnostic philosophical hermeneutics -- 7.3 The community of origin -- 7.4 A pluralist view of hermeneutics.
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