The Thunder: Perfect Mind

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Thunder: Perfect Mind

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 1-6

3. An Introduction to The Thunder: Perfect Mind

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 7-13

4. What Kind of Literature is Thunder?

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 15-20

5. Degnosticizing Thunder

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 21-28

6. Literary Patterns

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 29-39

7. Gendering Thunder, Thundering Gender

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 41-51

8. Rumbling Cultural and Social Order

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 53-60

9. Violence, Subjectivity, and Identity

   • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

   Pages 61-68

10. Style and Poetic Artistry

    • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

    Pages 69-82

11. Performing Thunder

    • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

    Pages 83-91

12. Making Meaning of Thunder in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts

    • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

    Pages 93-101

13. The Thunder: Perfect Mind, Annotated Coptic Text and English Translation

    • Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Celene Lillie, Justin Lasser

    Pages 102-153

14. Back Matter

    Pages 155-189

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This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind - a poem of 'I am' statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream culture. This book offers a fresh, current translation (with detailed Coptic annotations) and ten chapters of introductory analysis of the text.

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Author Hal Taussig: Hal Taussig holds professorial rank at both the Recontructionist Rabbinical College and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, USA. His 13 books include A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts; In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity; Re-Reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma (with Maia Kotrosits); and Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table (with Dennis Smith). Author Maia Kotrosits: Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion, queer studies, and women's studies at Denison University, USA.

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