Images of Rebirth
Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul
Biographical note
Hugo Lundhaug, Dr. art. (2007) in the History of Religions, University of Bergen, is a Senior Research
Fellow at the University of Oslo. He has published articles on the Nag Hammadi texts, early Egyptian
monasticism, and cognitive theory.
Fellow at the University of Oslo. He has published articles on the Nag Hammadi texts, early Egyptian
monasticism, and cognitive theory.
Readership
All those interested in the Nag Hammadi Codices, Early Christianity, Gnosticism, Biblical Interpretation,
Cognitive Literary Theory, early Egyptian Monasticism, and Coptol
Cognitive Literary Theory, early Egyptian Monasticism, and Coptol
Reviews
Future study of Exeg[esis of the]. Soul and Gos[pel of]. Philip will have to take this book into account.
Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review 37,2
'...Lundhaug has succeeded in showing that recent theories of cognitive poetics can aid in the delineation of rhetorical structures and possible polemical edges...Lundhaug's approach is sufficiently presented as to require future studies of the Nag hammadi texts and of early Egyptian Christianity to take this book into account.'
John D. Turner, Vigiliae Christianae 67 (2013)
Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review 37,2
'...Lundhaug has succeeded in showing that recent theories of cognitive poetics can aid in the delineation of rhetorical structures and possible polemical edges...Lundhaug's approach is sufficiently presented as to require future studies of the Nag hammadi texts and of early Egyptian Christianity to take this book into account.'
John D. Turner, Vigiliae Christianae 67 (2013)
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