The Nag Hammadi codices and late antique Egypt

Publication/Creation:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

The Nag Hammadi codices and late antique Egypt / edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott

Series Titles:

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum = Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity, 110
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 110.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Lundhaug, Hugo, editor
Jenott, Lance, 1980-, editor
Universitetet i Oslo, host institution
Nag Hammadi Codices in the Context of Fourth- and Fifth-Century Christianity in Egypt (Conference) (2013: University of Oslo)

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Nag Hammadi codices--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Congresses
Monasticism and religious orders--Egypt--Congresses
Egypt--Church history--Congresses

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the Nag Hammadi codices in context / Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott -- The Monastic Life. The Nag Hammadi Milieu : an assessment in the light of the origenist controversies / Jon F. Dechow -- The material encoding of Early Christian Division : Nag Hammadi Codex VII and the Ascetic Milieu in Upper Egypt / James E. Goehring -- Reading Jesus in the desert : the Gospel of Thomas meets the Apophthegmata Patrum / Melissa Harl Sellew -- Hegemony and homecoming in the ascetic imagination : sextus, Silvanus, and monastic instruction in Egypt / Blossom Stefaniw -- Part II: Egyptian Christianity and its Literature. Magical, Coptic, Christian : the Great Angel Eleleth and the 'Four Luminaries' in Egyptian literature of the first millennium CE / Dylan M. Burns -- From the apocalypse of Paul to Coptic epic passions : greeting Paul and the martyrs in heaven / Julio Cesar Dias Chaves -- Part III: Religious Diversity in Egypt. The soul flees to her treasure where her mind is : scriptural allusions in the authentikos logos / Ulla Tervahauta -- Part III: Religious Diversity in Egypt. Hermes between pagans and Christians : the Nag Hammadi Hermetica in context / Christian H. Bull -- What has Nag Hammadi to do with Medinet Madi? The case of Eugnostos and Manichaeism / René Falkenberg -- Books of the dead or books with the dead? Interpreting book depositions in Late Antique Egypt / Paula Tutty -- Part IV: Scribes and Manuscripts. The Dishna Papers and the Nag Hammadi Codices : the remains of a single monastic library? / Hugo Lundhaug -- The production and destination of the Nag Hammadi Codices / Louis Painchaud : A reexamination of the articulation marks in Nag Hammadi Codices II and XIII / Michael A. Williams and David Coblentz -- Dating early Greek and Coptic literary hands / Christian Askeland.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"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."--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xii, 508 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

General Note:

"Stemming from a conference organized by the ERC-project NEWCONT at the University of Oslo in December 2013, this volume 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."--Back cover."
International conference proceedings.

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936762987802486

ISBN:

9783161539732
3161539737

OCLC Number:

1030523095

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International Article Number: 9783161539732

Barcode:

300000476714