The Nag Hammadi Story (2 Vols.): From the Discovery to the Publication

approx. 1200 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-26251-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 1216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2177 g

Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

The Nag Hammadi Story is not a history of research in the usual sense of a Forschungsbericht, which would report on the massive amount of scholarship that has been devoted to the content of the Nag Hammadi Codices for more than a half-century. Rather it is a socio-historical narration of just what went on during the thirty-two years from their discovery late in 1945, via their initial trafficking, and then the attempts to monopolize them, until finally, through the intervention of UNESCO, the whole collection of thirteen Codices was published in facsimiles and in English translation, both completed late in 1977.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, James M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholische Kirchen in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Indien und Asien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Gnosis, Gnostizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Discovery and Trafficking of the Nag Hammadi Codices
2. The French Leadership in Early Nag Hammadi Studies 1946-1953
3. The Eid Codex = The Jung Codex = Codex I
4. The Swiss Leadership in Nag Hammadi Studies
5. The Dutch Leadershhip in Nag Hammadi Studies
6. The International Committee of Gnosticism 1956
7. The Gospel of Thomas
8. The German Leadership in Nag Hammadi Studies
9. Unesco under French Leadership 1960-1970
10. The Coptic Gnostic Library Project
11. The International Committee for the Nag Hammadi Codices
12. The Nag Hammadi Excavations

Über Autor(innen)

James M. Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Claremont Graduate University. He was the General Editor of the Coptic Gnostic Library (Brill, 1975-1996), The Nag Hammadi Library in English (revised most recently in 2007 with Dr. Marvin Meyer as editor) and he served as the Permanent Secretary for UNESCO's International Committee for the Nag Hammadi Codices.