Overview

Both the Thunder: Perfect Mind (NHC VI,2) and the Trimorphic Protennoia (NHC XIII,1) present their readers with goddesses who descend in such auditive terms as sound, voice, and word. In Linguistic Manifestations in the Trimorphic Protennoia and the Thunder: Perfect Mind, Tilde Bak Halvgaard argues that these presentations reflect a philosophical discussion about the nature of words and names, utterances and language, as well as the relationship between language and reality, inspired especially by Platonic and Stoic dialectics. Her analysis of these linguistic manifestations against the background of ancient philosophy of language offers many new insights into the structure of the two texts and the paradoxical sayings of the Thunder: Perfect Mind.

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'The ideas it discusses are expressed with great clarity and the important ideas discussed are readily accessible to a wider readership. The book offers fresh and important insights into these two fascinating texts' Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, The Expository Times 128 (4), 2017.

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Tilde Bak Halvgaard, Ph.D. (2012), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Biblical Studies at that university.

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