TY - BOOK AU - McGuire,Anne AU - Turner,John Douglas ED - Society of Biblical Literature. ED - Society of Biblical Literature. ED - Society of Biblical Literature. TI - The Nag Hammadi library after fifty years: proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature commemoration SN - 9004108246 U1 - 281.22 PY - 1997/// CY - Leiden, New York PB - Brill KW - Nag Hammadi codices KW - Congresses KW - Gnostic literature N1 - 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++ ER -