The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Maps and Images -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics? -- A Brief History of the Question -- The Present Study -- Dating the Codices -- The Discovery -- Chapter 2: Monastic Diversity in Upper Egypt -- Literary Evide...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Lundhaug, Hugo, 1970-, The monastic origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices] (2018) (Van den Kerchove, Anna)
The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices (2018) (Lewis, Nicola Denzey) |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity
v.97 |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783161541728 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Maps and Images -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics? -- A Brief History of the Question -- The Present Study -- Dating the Codices -- The Discovery -- Chapter 2: Monastic Diversity in Upper Egypt -- Literary Evidence -- Travelogues -- Hagiographies -- Shenoute of Atripe and Archbishop Dioscorus -- Archaeological Evidence -- Documentary Evidence -- Monastic Archives -- Monastic Documents from the Nag Hammadi Covers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Gnostics? -- Sethian Gnostics? -- Gnostics in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Egypt? -- Gnostics in Egyptian Monasteries? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Contrasting Mentalities? -- Anti-Biblical Books? -- Hatred of the World and its Creator? -- Urban Literati? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Cartonnage -- Commercial Documents -- Official Accounts and Large Quantities -- Imperial Ordinances? -- Recycled Scripture -- A Coptic Homily or Epistle -- Monks' Letters and the Pachomian Connection -- Acquisition of Cartonnage -- Cover-Makers and Scribes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Apocryphal Books in Egyptian Monasteries -- Censors and Sympathizers -- Book Lists -- Manuscript Discoveries -- The Pachomian Federation -- Shenoute and the White Monastery Federation -- Dioscorus of Alexandria -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Colophons -- The Scribe and His Superior: Codex VII -- The Scribe and His Community: Codex II -- The Scribe and His Spiritual Name: Codex III -- The Scribe and His Codes: Cryptography -- The Scribe and His Network: Codex VI -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: The Codices -- Sub-Groups among the Nag Hammadi Codices -- Traveling Texts and Migrating People -- The Nag Hammadi Codices and Biblical Manuscripts -- The Dishna Papers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: The Monks -- Melitian Monks? -- Origenist Monks? -- Pachomian Monks? -- Implications. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3161541731 |