The Nag Hammadi library after fifty years : proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature commemoration / edited by John D. Turner and Anne McGuire.

Contributor(s): McGuire, Anne | Turner, John Douglas | Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting (1975 : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Society of Biblical Literature. Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section | Society of Biblical Literature. Thomasine Christianity GroupMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: engfre Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 44Publication details: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997. Description: xviii, 531 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9004108246Subject(s): Nag Hammadi codices -- Congresses | Gnostic literature -- CongressesDDC classification: 281.22
Contents:
Nag Hammadi : the first fifty years / James M. Robinson -- Religious tradition, textual transmission, and the Nag Hammadi codices / Stephen Emmel -- The Coptic Gnostic library edition of the Nag Hammadi codex VII / Birger A. Pearson -- The work of the Berliner Arbeitskreis : past, present, and future / Hans-Martin Schenke -- The issue of pre-Christian gnosticism reviewed in the light of the Nag Hammadi texts / Edwin M. Yamauchi -- The thought and pattern of Gnostic mythologizers and their use of biblical traditions / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- Approaching the variants of the Apocryphon of John / Karen L. King -- After the Synopsis : prospects and problems in establishing a critical text of the Apocryphon of John and defining its historical location / Frederik Wisse --The primal triad in the Apocryphon of John / Michael Waldstein -- Sophia-mêtêr : reconstructing a Gnostic myth / Sergio La Porta -- Response to the papers of Karen King, Frederik Wisse, Michael Waldstein and Sergio La++
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Papers presented at the annual meeting in Philadelphia, Nov. 18-22, 1995, of the Society of Biblical Literature by the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section and Thomasine Christianity Group in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-531).

Nag Hammadi : the first fifty years / James M. Robinson -- Religious tradition, textual transmission, and the Nag Hammadi codices / Stephen Emmel -- The Coptic Gnostic library edition of the Nag Hammadi codex VII / Birger A. Pearson -- The work of the Berliner Arbeitskreis : past, present, and future / Hans-Martin Schenke -- The issue of pre-Christian gnosticism reviewed in the light of the Nag Hammadi texts / Edwin M. Yamauchi -- The thought and pattern of Gnostic mythologizers and their use of biblical traditions / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- Approaching the variants of the Apocryphon of John / Karen L. King -- After the Synopsis : prospects and problems in establishing a critical text of the Apocryphon of John and defining its historical location / Frederik Wisse --The primal triad in the Apocryphon of John / Michael Waldstein -- Sophia-mêtêr : reconstructing a Gnostic myth / Sergio La Porta -- Response to the papers of Karen King, Frederik Wisse, Michael Waldstein and Sergio La++

Contributions in English with one contribution in French.

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