Finding Early Christian Books at Nag Hammadi and Beyond
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https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v45i2.28062Keywords:
Nag Hammadi, Papyrology, Christianity in Egypt, Early Christian booksAbstract
This essay responds to two recent articles on the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices, one by Mark Goodacre and another by Nicola Denzey Lewis and Justine Ariel Blount.
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Bouriant, Urbain. 1892. “Fragments grecs du livre d’Énoch.” Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission Archéologique française au Caire 9: 93–147.
Bruce, James. 1790. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia: Volume V. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven.
Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1920. By Nile and Tigris: A Narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on Behalf of the British Museum Between the Years 1886 and 1913. London: John Murray.
Buhle, Joh. Gottlieb. 1796. Literarische Briefwechsel von Johann David Michaelis, Dritter Theil. Leipzig: Weidmannschen Buchhandlung.
Churton, Tobias. 1987. The Gnostics. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Crégheur, Eric. 2014. “Pour une nouvelle histoire de la découverte et de l’état primitif du Codex Bruce (1769–1794).” Journal of Coptic Studies 16: 47–68.
Denzey Lewis, Nicola, and Justine Ariel Blount. 2014. “Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” Journal of Biblical Literature 133: 399–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2014.0017.
Doresse, Jean. 1958. Les livres secrets des gnostiques d’Égypte: Introduction aux écrits gnostiques coptes découverts à Khénoboskion. Paris: Librairie Plon.
———. 1960. The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion. New York: Viking Press.
Dosoo, Korshi. 2014. “Rituals of Apparition in the Theban Magical Library.” PhD diss., Macquarie University.
Emmel, Stephen. 1991. “The Nag Hammadi Library.” In The Coptic Encyclopedia, edited by Aziz S. Atiya, 1771–73. New York: Macmillan.
———. 2008. “The Coptic Gnostic Texts as Witnesses to the Production and Transmission of Gnostic (and Other) Traditions.” In Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung—Rezeption—Theologie edited by Jörg Frey et al., 33–49. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Gabra, Gawdat. 1995. Der Psalter im oxyrhynchitischen (mesokemischen/mittelägyptischen) Dialekt. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag.
Gardner, Iain. 2007. Kellis Literary Texts Volume 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Goodacre, Mark. 2013. “How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 35: 303–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142064X13482243.
Górecki, Tomasz. 2007. “Sheikh Adb El-Gurna (Hermitage in Tomb 1152): Preliminary Report, 2005.” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 17: 263–74.
Griggs, C. Wilfred. 1990. Early Egyptian Christianity from its Origins to 451 CE. Leiden: Brill.
Hopkins, Nicholas S. 2007. “Spirit Mediumship in Upper Egypt.” Anthropos 102: 403–19.
Horton, Charles 2004. “The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri: A Find of Greatest Importance.” In The Earliest Gospels: The Origins and Transmission of the Earliest Christian Gospels, edited by Charles Horton, 149–60. London: T & T Clark.
Kenyon, Frederic G. 1899. The Palaeography of Greek Papyri. Oxford: Clarendon.
Khosroyev, Alexandr. 1995. Die Bibliothek von Nag Hammadi: Einige Probleme des Christentums in Ägypten während der ersten Jahrhunderte. Altenberge: Oros.
Krosney, Herbert. 2006. The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.
Layton, Bentley. 1987. The Gnostic Scriptures. New York: Doubleday.
Lundhaug, Hugo, and Lance Jenott. 2015. The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Mina, Togo. 1948. “Le papyrus gnostique du Musée Copte.” Vigiliae Christianae 2: 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1582148.
Nielsen, Hans Christian Korsholm. 2006. “State and Customary Law in Upper Egypt.” Islamic Law and Society 13: 123–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851906775275439.
Nongbri, Brent. 2014. “The Acquisition of the University of Michigan’s Portion of the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri and a New Suggested Provenance.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 60: 93–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apf-2014-0108.
Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1890. Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe. London: Field & Tuer.
———. 1924. “The Discovery of the Papyrus.” In Herbert Thomspon, The Gospel of St. John according to the Earliest Coptic Manuscript, ix–x, London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt.
Robins, George. 1842. A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Oriental Literature, Collected by James Bruce, of Kinnaird. London: Smith and Robins.
Robinson, James M. 1977. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
———. 1979. “The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” The Biblical Archaeologist 42: 206–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3209514.
———. 1981. “From the Cliff to Cairo: The Story of the Discoverers and the Middlemen of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” In Colloque international sur les textes de Nag Hammadi (Québec, 22-25 août 1978), edited by Bernard Barc, 21–58. Louvain: Peeters.
———. 1984. The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Introduction. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1988. The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd rev.ed. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1998. “Theological Autobiography.” In The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone, 117–50. Ipswich: Macmillan.
———. 2007. The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel, rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
———. 2009. “The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” Journal of Coptic Studies 11: 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/JCS.11.0.2044696.
———. 2014a. The Nag Hammadi Story, Volume 1: The Discovery and Monopoly. Leiden: Brill.
———. 2014b. The Nag Hammadi Story, Volume 2: The Publication. Leiden: Brill.
Robinson, James M., and Bastiaan van Elderen. 1976. “The First Season of the Nag Hammadi Excavation: 27 November–19 December 1975.” Newsletter (American Research Center in Egypt) 96: 18–24.
Schmidt, Carl. 1903. Die alten Petrusakten im zusammenhang der apokryphen Apostellitteratur. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung.
Schmidt, Carl, and H. J. Polotsky, 1933. “Ein Mani-Fund in Ägypten: Originalschriften des Mani und seiner Schüler.” In Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, philosophisch-historische Klasse, 4–90. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Shelton, J. C. 1981. “Introduction.” In Nag Hammadi Codices: Greek and Coptic Papyri from the Cartonnage of the Covers, edited by J. W. B. Barns†, G. M. Browne, and J. C. Shelton. Leiden: Brill.
Thompson, Edward Maunde. 1912. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon.
Turner, Eric G. 1987. Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World, 2nd rev. ed. Edited by P. J. Parsons. London: Institute of Classical Studies.
Van Minnen, Peter. 2003. “The Greek Apocalypse of Peter.” In The Apocalypse of Peter, edited by Jan N. Bremmer and István Czachesz, 15–39. Leuven: Peeters.
Worp, K. A., and A. Rijksbaron. 1997. The Kellis Isocrates Codex (P.Kell. III Gr. 95). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Bouriant, Urbain. 1892. “Fragments grecs du livre d’Énoch.” Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission Archéologique française au Caire 9: 93–147.
Bruce, James. 1790. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia: Volume V. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven.
Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1920. By Nile and Tigris: A Narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on Behalf of the British Museum Between the Years 1886 and 1913. London: John Murray.
Buhle, Joh. Gottlieb. 1796. Literarische Briefwechsel von Johann David Michaelis, Dritter Theil. Leipzig: Weidmannschen Buchhandlung.
Churton, Tobias. 1987. The Gnostics. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Crégheur, Eric. 2014. “Pour une nouvelle histoire de la découverte et de l’état primitif du Codex Bruce (1769–1794).” Journal of Coptic Studies 16: 47–68.
Denzey Lewis, Nicola, and Justine Ariel Blount. 2014. “Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” Journal of Biblical Literature 133: 399–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2014.0017.
Doresse, Jean. 1958. Les livres secrets des gnostiques d’Égypte: Introduction aux écrits gnostiques coptes découverts à Khénoboskion. Paris: Librairie Plon.
———. 1960. The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion. New York: Viking Press.
Dosoo, Korshi. 2014. “Rituals of Apparition in the Theban Magical Library.” PhD diss., Macquarie University.
Emmel, Stephen. 1991. “The Nag Hammadi Library.” In The Coptic Encyclopedia, edited by Aziz S. Atiya, 1771–73. New York: Macmillan.
———. 2008. “The Coptic Gnostic Texts as Witnesses to the Production and Transmission of Gnostic (and Other) Traditions.” In Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung—Rezeption—Theologie edited by Jörg Frey et al., 33–49. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Gabra, Gawdat. 1995. Der Psalter im oxyrhynchitischen (mesokemischen/mittelägyptischen) Dialekt. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag.
Gardner, Iain. 2007. Kellis Literary Texts Volume 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Goodacre, Mark. 2013. “How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 35: 303–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142064X13482243.
Górecki, Tomasz. 2007. “Sheikh Adb El-Gurna (Hermitage in Tomb 1152): Preliminary Report, 2005.” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 17: 263–74.
Griggs, C. Wilfred. 1990. Early Egyptian Christianity from its Origins to 451 CE. Leiden: Brill.
Hopkins, Nicholas S. 2007. “Spirit Mediumship in Upper Egypt.” Anthropos 102: 403–19.
Horton, Charles 2004. “The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri: A Find of Greatest Importance.” In The Earliest Gospels: The Origins and Transmission of the Earliest Christian Gospels, edited by Charles Horton, 149–60. London: T & T Clark.
Kenyon, Frederic G. 1899. The Palaeography of Greek Papyri. Oxford: Clarendon.
Khosroyev, Alexandr. 1995. Die Bibliothek von Nag Hammadi: Einige Probleme des Christentums in Ägypten während der ersten Jahrhunderte. Altenberge: Oros.
Krosney, Herbert. 2006. The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.
Layton, Bentley. 1987. The Gnostic Scriptures. New York: Doubleday.
Lundhaug, Hugo, and Lance Jenott. 2015. The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Mina, Togo. 1948. “Le papyrus gnostique du Musée Copte.” Vigiliae Christianae 2: 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1582148.
Nielsen, Hans Christian Korsholm. 2006. “State and Customary Law in Upper Egypt.” Islamic Law and Society 13: 123–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851906775275439.
Nongbri, Brent. 2014. “The Acquisition of the University of Michigan’s Portion of the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri and a New Suggested Provenance.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 60: 93–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apf-2014-0108.
Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1890. Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe. London: Field & Tuer.
———. 1924. “The Discovery of the Papyrus.” In Herbert Thomspon, The Gospel of St. John according to the Earliest Coptic Manuscript, ix–x, London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt.
Robins, George. 1842. A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Oriental Literature, Collected by James Bruce, of Kinnaird. London: Smith and Robins.
Robinson, James M. 1977. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
———. 1979. “The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” The Biblical Archaeologist 42: 206–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3209514.
———. 1981. “From the Cliff to Cairo: The Story of the Discoverers and the Middlemen of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” In Colloque international sur les textes de Nag Hammadi (Québec, 22-25 août 1978), edited by Bernard Barc, 21–58. Louvain: Peeters.
———. 1984. The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Introduction. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1988. The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd rev.ed. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1998. “Theological Autobiography.” In The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone, 117–50. Ipswich: Macmillan.
———. 2007. The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel, rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
———. 2009. “The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices.” Journal of Coptic Studies 11: 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/JCS.11.0.2044696.
———. 2014a. The Nag Hammadi Story, Volume 1: The Discovery and Monopoly. Leiden: Brill.
———. 2014b. The Nag Hammadi Story, Volume 2: The Publication. Leiden: Brill.
Robinson, James M., and Bastiaan van Elderen. 1976. “The First Season of the Nag Hammadi Excavation: 27 November–19 December 1975.” Newsletter (American Research Center in Egypt) 96: 18–24.
Schmidt, Carl. 1903. Die alten Petrusakten im zusammenhang der apokryphen Apostellitteratur. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung.
Schmidt, Carl, and H. J. Polotsky, 1933. “Ein Mani-Fund in Ägypten: Originalschriften des Mani und seiner Schüler.” In Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, philosophisch-historische Klasse, 4–90. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Shelton, J. C. 1981. “Introduction.” In Nag Hammadi Codices: Greek and Coptic Papyri from the Cartonnage of the Covers, edited by J. W. B. Barns†, G. M. Browne, and J. C. Shelton. Leiden: Brill.
Thompson, Edward Maunde. 1912. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon.
Turner, Eric G. 1987. Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World, 2nd rev. ed. Edited by P. J. Parsons. London: Institute of Classical Studies.
Van Minnen, Peter. 2003. “The Greek Apocalypse of Peter.” In The Apocalypse of Peter, edited by Jan N. Bremmer and István Czachesz, 15–39. Leuven: Peeters.
Worp, K. A., and A. Rijksbaron. 1997. The Kellis Isocrates Codex (P.Kell. III Gr. 95). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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Nongbri, B. (2016). Finding Early Christian Books at Nag Hammadi and Beyond. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 45(2), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v45i2.28062
