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Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers by : Paul Linjamaa
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers written by Paul Linjamaa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Linjamaa's study explores the way in which fourth century Egyptian monks produced, read and studied the Nag Hammadi Codices.
Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers by : Paul Linjamaa
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers written by Paul Linjamaa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated questions and scholarly debate as to their date and function. Paul Linjamaa contributes to the discussion by offering insights into previously uncharted aspects pertinent to the materiality of the manuscripts. He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices. He also demonstrates that the texts were used for perfecting scribal and editorial practice, and that they were used as protective artefacts containing sacred symbols in the continuous monastic warfare against evil spirits. Linjamaa's application of new material methods provides clues to the origins and use of ancient texts, and challenges preconceptions about ancient orthodoxy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt by : Hugo Lundhaug
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt written by Hugo Lundhaug and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume situate the Nag Hammadi Codices and their texts in the context of late antique Egypt, treating such topics as Coptic readers and readings, the difficulty of dating early Greek and Coptic manuscripts, scribal practices, the importance of heavenly ascent, asceticism, and instruction in Egyptian monastic culture. They also explore the relationship of the texts to the Origenist controversy and Manichaeism, the continuity of mythical traditions in later Coptic literature, and issues relating to the codices' production and burial. The volume thus showcases the new trend in scholarship to treat the Nag Hammadi Codices not as sources for Gnosticism, but instead for Christianity and monasticism in late antique Egypt.
Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Scriptures by : Marvin W. Meyer
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Scriptures written by Marvin W. Meyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, as well as other Gnostic gospels and sacred texts. This volume also includes introductory essays, notes, tables, glossary, index, etc. to help the reader understand the context and contemporary significance of these texts which have shed new light on early Christianity and ancient thought. The compilation of ancient manuscripts that constitute The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is a discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early Christian church, ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman religions.
Book Synopsis Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII by : Charles W. Hedrick
Download or read book Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents critical editions of three of the most fragmentary codices in the Nag Hammadi Library. Their nine tractates are presented in an English translation with critically edited transcriptions of Coptic texts, including introductions and notes. A complete set of indices is provided for Coptic and Greek words, proper names, ancient texts and authors, and modern authors. The contents of these three ancient books reflect the rich diversity of the Library as a whole. They include a fragmentary (and apparently non-Christian) revelation descent narrative (Hypsiphrone); a non-Christian Sethian text reflecting heavy platonizing influence (Allogenes); Hellenistic Greek wisdom literature (Sentence of Sextus); a non-christian Sethian text, secondarily Christianized (Trimorphic Protennoia); Valentinian Gnosticism (A Valentinian Exposition); a Christian-Gnostic tractate with Valentinian affinities (The Interpretation of Knowledge). A Christian-Gnostic (perhaps Valentinian) homily on the gospel (the Gospel of Truth); the first page of On the Origin of the World (completely preserved in NHC II) and an identified fragmentary tractate with ethical content. There are also five Valentinian liturgical supplements appended to Allogenes. The publication of these religio-philosophical materials from Nag Hammadi provides the scholar and interested reader with critical editions of texts that help to fill in background and context of gnostic origins, and that shed light on the interaction among early Christianity and gnostic movements in antiquity.
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Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Library by : Charles River Charles River Editors
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Library written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes excerpts from the texts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many people interested in biblical themes know about the Dead Sea Scrolls and their guardians, the mysterious Essenes, the sect of Judaism that hid its priceless library in caves before marching against the Romans in an end-time war, certain that God would intervene at the decisive moment. The ancient texts found in their rock cabinets have produced tons of literature. Fewer people know about an equally fascinating finding in the same region of the planet, made only a few months apart: a collection of hitherto unknown Christian codices, buried in the 4th century AD, and found accidentally by peasants near the city of Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt. Among the old codices was The Gospel of Thomas, lost for sixteen centuries, and other unfamiliar titles such as The Gospel of Philip and the Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles. In this case it was not Essenes who had entrusted them to the protection of the caves and the centuries, but monks who followed a now forgotten variant of Christianity called Gnosticism. The Gnostics were mystics who had no real use or hope for the world. Their writings became forbidden when the Church defined the canon of the books authorized to be read in the congregation. For some reason, instead of burning them, the monks of Nag Hammadi decided to entrust them to posterity, perhaps waiting for better times. The library of Nag Hammadi, Egypt is as significant in the study of early Christianity as the writings of the Essenes to the understanding of Judaism during the time of the Roman occupation. Considering the history of religions, they were composed at the opposite sides of that watershed that was the 1st century CE, which witnessed the birth of Christianity and the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem. The Dead Sea Scrolls belonged to a community that lived before the traumatic destruction of Holy City and its temple at the hands of the Romans. The library of Nag Hammadi was produced and buried by a group of Christians whose ancestors had left their place of origin many years before. Although all the titles of the Nag Hammadi library are not known, many people have heard about its most famous components: The Gospel of Thomas -at one time it was discussed whether it should be included in the New Testament- and The Gospel of Philip, which tried to revive the debate around the identity of Mary Magdalene: "Why do you love her more than all of us?" asks a disconcerted Peter to Jesus. Finally, the Nag Hammadi texts have led many scholars to reconsider the rigid canons imposed by the early Church, and the readers to find a more intimate religion that turned upside down many postulates of Christian orthodoxy. Along with the history of their discovery in 1945, the analysis of the main texts that form this collection, the exposition of their most important beliefs, and the reasons for their suppression in the 4th century CE, you will learn about the unknown gospels and the Gnostic texts of Nag Hammadi like never before.
Book Synopsis The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices by : Hugo Lundhaug
Download or read book The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by Hugo Lundhaug and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott offer a sustained argument for the monastic provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices. They examine the arguments for and against a monastic Sitz im Leben and defend the view that the Codices were produced and read by Christian monks, most likely Pachomians, in the fourth- and fifth-century monasteries of Upper Egypt. Eschewing the modern classification of the Nag Hammadi texts as “Gnostic,” the authors approach the codices and their ancient owners from the perspective of the diverse monastic culture of late antique Egypt and situate them in the context of the ongoing controversies over extra-canonical literature and the theological legacy of Origen. Through a combination of sources, including idealized hagiographies, travelogues, monastic rules and exhortations, and the more quotidian details revealed in documentary papyri, manuscript collections, and archaeology, monasticism in the Thebaid is brought to life, and the Nag Hammadi codices situated within it. The cartonnage papyri from the leather covers of the codices, which bear witness to the monastic culture of the region, are closely examined, while scribal and codicological features of the codices are analyzed and compared with contemporary manuscripts from Egypt. Special attention is given to the codices’ scribal notes and colophons which offer direct evidence of their producers and users. The study ultimately reveals the Nag Hammadi Codices as a collection of books completely at home in the monastic manuscript culture of late antique Egypt."--
Book Synopsis The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices by : James M. Robinson
Download or read book The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by James M. Robinson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of thirteen codices found in upper Egypt near Nag Hammadi in 1946 is one of the major archaeological discoveries of our time. Apparently the library of a Gnostic community in late antiquity, the codices are a repository of important spiritual materials from throughout the ancient world. Hence a thorough analysis of this new material is indispensable for any proper understanding of the history of religions in this period. The rich documentation which the codices add to early Coptic text material promises to raise to a new precision the historical analysis of that language.|This edition presents collotype reproductions in natural size of all folios of the thirteen codices as well as reproductions of the covers and photographs previously taken of fragments that are now lost.
Book Synopsis The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices by : Hugo Lundhaug
Download or read book The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by Hugo Lundhaug and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Codices As Monastic Books by : Hugo Lundhaug
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Codices As Monastic Books written by Hugo Lundhaug and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated. In the history of scholarship, the texts have primarily been analyzed in light of the contexts of their hypothetical Greek originals, which in a majority of cases have been thought to have been authored in the second and third centuries CE in a variety of contexts. The articles in this volume take a different approach. Instead of focusing on hypothetical originals, they ask how the texts may have been used and understood by those who read the Coptic papyrus codices in which the texts have been preserved and take as their point of departure recent research indicating that these manuscripts were produced and used by early Egyptian monastics. It is shown that the reading habits and theological ideas attested historically for Upper Egyptian monasticism in the fourth and fifth centuries resonate well with several of the texts within the Nag Hammadi Codices.
Book Synopsis The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. 3. Codex III by : James McConkey Robinson
Download or read book The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. 3. Codex III written by James McConkey Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1976 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. 1. Codex I by : James M. Robinson
Download or read book The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. 1. Codex I written by James M. Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1972 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. 4. Codex IV by : James M. Robinson
Download or read book The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. 4. Codex IV written by James M. Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1975 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nag Hammadi Scriptures by : Wolf-Peter Funk
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Scriptures written by Wolf-Peter Funk and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scribes and Readers of Nag Hammadi Codex II by : Eduard Iricinschi
Download or read book The Scribes and Readers of Nag Hammadi Codex II written by Eduard Iricinschi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices by :
Download or read book The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1979 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII by :
Download or read book Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
