num_pages: 561
description: Drawing on a wide array of sources this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion with an emphasis on Gnosticism Christianity and Paganism.
language: None
title: Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices: Studies for Einar Thomassen at Sixty
publisher: Brill Academic Publishers