The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt
Lance Jenott (Editor), Hugo Lundhaug (Editor), Heidelberg: Mohr Siebeck, 2018
Description
This volume showcases the new trend in scholarship to treat the Nag Hammadi Codices as sources for Christianity and monasticism in late antique Egypt rather than for Gnosticism. The essays 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, 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. Most of the essays were originally presented at the conference “The Nag Hammadi Codices in the Context of Fourth- and Fifth-Century Christianity in Egypt,” organized by the ERC-financed project New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Egypt (NEWCONT), at the University of Oslo in December 2013.
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Table of contents
Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott – Introduction
Christian Askeland – Dating early Greek and Coptic literary hands
Christian Bull – Hermes Between Pagans and Christians in Fourth Century Egypt: The Literary and Historical Contexts of the Nag Hammadi Hermetica
Dylan Burns – Sethian, Coptic, Christian: Eleleth and the “Four Luminaries” in Roman and postConquest Egypt
Julio Cesar Dias Chaves – From the Apocalypse of Paul (NH V, 2) to Coptic Epic Passions: Welcoming and Greeting Paul and the Martyrs in Heaven
Jon Dechow – The Nag Hammadi Milieu: An Assessment in the Light of the Origenist Controversies (with Appendix 2015)
Stephen Emmel – Toward (Re-)Constructing a Coptic Reading Experience in Late Antique Egypt
René Falkenberg – What has Nag Hammadi to do with Medinet Madi? Literary connections between Eugnostos and Manichaeism
James E. Goehring – The Material Encoding of Early Christian Division: Nag Hammadi Codex VII and the Ascetic Milieu in Upper Egypt
Lillian Larsen – Slippery Sources: The Sentences of Sextus as Sayings and Stories (and Schooltexts)
Hugo Lundhaug – The Relationship Between the Nag Hammadi Codices and the Dishna Papers
Louis Painchaud – The Production and Destination of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Philip Sellew – Reading Jesus in the Desert: The Gospel of Thomas Meets the Apophthegmata Patrum
Blossom Stefaniw – Hegemony and Homecoming in the Ascetic Imagination: Sextus, Silvanus, and Monastic Instruction in Egypt
Ulla Tervahauta – Scriptural allusions and reminiscences in Authentikos Logos (NHC VI,)
Paula Tutty – Books of the Dead or Books with the Dead: Interpreting Book Depositions in Late Antique Egypt
Michael A. Williams and David Coblentz – A Reexamination of the Articulation Marks in Nag Hammadi Codices II and XIII
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