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.
Download or read book The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1973-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Nag Hammadi Codices Volume 1 Introduction written by A S George and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 182 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. Perhaps 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.
Download or read book The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1973 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria written by Mostafa El-Abbadi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In adopting the theme of What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? this book aims at presenting afresh, a highly specialized discussion of primary sources related to the diverse aspects and episodes of that long disputed question. The book covers a wide range of topics, beginning with an initial presentation of different Ancient Egyptian types of library institutions, with a special focus on the later Coptic Nag Hamadi Library. It then deals with the troubled times under later Ptolemies and Romans, when the Royal Library, the Daughter Library and the Mouseion, came under a succession of threats: Caesar’s Alexandrian War in 48 B.C., and during the tragic developments in the third and fourth centuries which ultimately culminated in the destruction of the Serapeum that housed the Daughter Library. A discussion of the intellectual milieu during the fourth and fifth centuries, follows, as well as the conflicting attitudes within the Church with regard to classical learning. An analysis of historical and new archaeological evidence confirms the fact that Alexandria continued to be a city of books and scholarship centuries after the destruction of the Library. Finally, the late medieval Arab story of the destruction of the Library by order of Caliph Omar, is fully considered and refuted through textual analysis of the original sources. Contributors include: William J. Cherf, Dimitar Y. Dimitrov, Maria Dzielska, Mostafa A. El-Abbadi, Jean-Yves Empereur, Fayza M. Haikal, Georges Leroux, Bernard Lewis, Grzegorz Majcherek, Mounir H. Megally, Birger A. Pearson, Lucien X. Polastron, Qassem Abdou Qassem, and Ismail Serageldin.
Download or read book The Coptic Gnostic Library written by James McConkey Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gnostic Library" continues where the Dead Sea Scrolls left off. It is based on the Nag Hammadi codices, which were unearthed in 1945 -- a discovery considered as significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves. The "Coptic Gnostic Library" contains all the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, both in the original Coptic and in translation. It sheds an invaluable light upon early Judaism and the roots of Christianity. Now available in paperback.
Download or read book The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hamma Di Codices Codex VI Secr taire de L ed James M Rob Inson written by James McConkey Robinson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1972 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rethinking Gnosticism written by Michael Allen Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the term "gnosticism," which often connotes a single rebellious movement against the prevailing religions of late antiquity, gives the false impression of a monolithic religious phenomenon. Here Michael Williams challenges the validity of the widely invoked category of ancient "gnosticism" and the ways it has been described. Presenting such famous writings and movements as the Apocryphon of John and Valentinian Christianity, Williams uncovers the similarities and differences among some major traditions widely categorized as gnostic. He provides an eloquent, systematic argument for a more accurate way to discuss these interpretive approaches. The modern construct "gnosticism" is not justified by any ancient self-definition, and many of the most commonly cited religious features that supposedly define gnosticism phenomenologically turn out to be questionable. Exploring the sample sets of "gnostic" teachings, Williams refutes generalizations concerning asceticism and libertinism, attitudes toward the body and the created world, and alleged features of protest, parasitism, and elitism. He sketches a fresh model for understanding ancient innovations on more "mainstream" Judaism and Christianity, a model that is informed by modern research on dynamics in new religious movements and is freed from the false stereotypes from which the category "gnosticism" has been constructed.
Download or read book Gnosis and Gnosticism written by Martin Krause and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Vorwort /Martin Krause --Abbreviations /Martin Krause --Gnosis /Martin Krause --A. Coptic Gnostic Texts from Nag Hammadi /Martin Krause --Les Citations d'Homère dans le Traité de L'Exégèse de l'âme /Maddalena Scopello --Der Dialog des Soter in Codex III von Nag Hammadi /Martin Krause --L'Apocalypse d'Adam de Nag Hammadi: Un Essai D'interpretation /Françoise Morard --Die Polemik der Gnostiker Gegen das Kirchliche Christentum: Skizziert am Beispiel des Nag-Hammadi-Traktates Testimonium Veritatis /Klaus Koschorke --The Trimorphic Protennoia /R. McL. Wilson --Prayer among the Gnostics? The Evidence of some Nag Hammadi Documents /Eric Segelberg --Das Problem des Bösen in Apokalyptik und Gnostik /Carl-A. Keller --B. Manichaeism /Martin Krause --Commandements de la Justice et vie Missionaire Dans l'église de Mani /Julien Ries --L'utilisation des Actes Apocryphes des Apôtres dans le Manichéisme /Jean-Daniel Kaestli --Gnosticism /Martin Krause --Unerkannte Gnostische Schriften in Hippolyts Refutatio /Josef Frickel --Y A-T-Il des Traces de la Polémique Antignostique d'Irénée dans le Péri Archôn d'Origène? /A. le Boulluec --Erwählungstheologie und Menschenklassenlehre: Die Theologie des Herakleon als Schlüssel zum Verständnis der christlichen Gnosis? /Barbara Aland --Gnosis and Gnosticism /Martin Krause --Simonianische Gnosis und die Exegese Über die Seele /Sasagu Arai --Les Livres Mis Sous le Nom de Seth et les Séthiens de L'hérésiologie /Michel Tardieu --Index /Martin Krause.
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Download or read book The Legacy of John written by Tuomas Rasimus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the early, second-century reception of the Fourth Gospel. This is an era when its fortunes are surrounded by silence and mystery. It was assumed, until quite recently, that Gnostic and other so-called heterodox groups were the first ones to appreciate this gospel, and hence the mainstream Christians avoided using it until Irenaeus rescued it for the church. Lately, this view has been challenged by several scholars for several reasons. The contributions in this volume, written by leading specialists in their respective fields, offer an approachable, fresh, comprehensive and up-to-date view of the second-century reception of John s Gospel, in a situation where new understandings about various forms of early Christianity and its multiformity have started to emerge.
Download or read book The Gospel of Thomas written by Simon James Gathercole and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new commentary on the controversial Gospel of Thomas, Simon Gathercole provides the most extensive analysis yet published of both the work as a whole and of the individual sayings contained in it. This commentary offers a fresh analysis of Thomas not from the perspective of form criticism and source criticism but seeks to elucidate the meaning of the work and its constituent elements in its second-century context. With its lucid discussion of the various controversial aspects of Thomas, and treatment of the various different scholarly views, this is a foundational work of reference for scholars not just of apocryphal Gospels, but also for New Testament scholars, Classicists and Patrologists.
Download or read book The Typology of the Early Codex written by Eric G. Turner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Download or read book Nag Hammadi Codex VII written by Birger Pearson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the critical edition of the five tractates in Nag Hammadi Codex VII, with codex introduction (by Frederik Wisse), introductions, Coptic text, and English translations and notes, of The Paraphrase of Shem (Wisse). Second Treatise of the Great Seth (Gregory Riley), Apocalypse of Peter (M. Desjardins and James Brashler), The Teachings of Silvanus (Malcolm Peel and Jan Sandee) and The Three Steles of Seth (James Goehring and James M. Robinson).
Download or read book The Future of Coptic Studies written by R MCL Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
