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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): Turner, John Douglas | McGuire, Anne | Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting (1975 : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Society of Biblical Literature. Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section | Society of Biblical Literature. Thomasine Christianity Group
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies: 44.Publisher: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997Description: xviii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004108246Subject(s): Nag Hammadi codices -- Congresses | Gnostic literature -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-531).
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 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 Porta / Michael A. Williams -- On the coherence of the Gospel according to Philip / Martha L. Turner -- How Valentinian is the Gospel of Philip? / Einar Thomassen -- Ritual in the Gospel of Philip / Elaine H. Pagels -- The writings ascribed to Thomas and the Thomas tradition / Paul-Hubert Poirier -- The Gospel of Thomas 76.3 and canonical parallels : three segments in the tradition history of the saying / Steven R. Johnson -- The Gospel of Thomas : prospects for future research / Philip H. Sellew -- L'interpretation de l'Évangile selon Thomas : entre tradition et rédaction / Jean-Marie Sevrin -- John and Thomas in conflict? / Ismo Dunderberg --"Blessed are those who have not seen" (Jn 20:29) : Johannine dramatization of an early Christian discourse / April D. De Conick -- Valentinian gnosticism : toward the anatomy of a school / Christoph Markschies -- The "kingless generation" and the polemical rewriting of certain Nag Hammadi texts / Louis Painchaud and Timothy Janz -- The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles : a reconsideration of the source question / Andrea Lorenzo Molinari -- Interpretation of the prologue to John's Gospel in some gnostic and patristic writings : a common tradition / Anne Pasquier.

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.

Contributions in English with one contribution in French.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [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 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 Porta / Michael A. Williams -- On the coherence of the Gospel according to Philip / Martha L. Turner -- How Valentinian is the Gospel of Philip? / Einar Thomassen -- Ritual in the Gospel of Philip / Elaine H. Pagels -- The writings ascribed to Thomas and the Thomas tradition / Paul-Hubert Poirier -- The Gospel of Thomas 76.3 and canonical parallels : three segments in the tradition history of the saying / Steven R. Johnson -- The Gospel of Thomas : prospects for future research / Philip H. Sellew -- L'interpretation de l'Évangile selon Thomas : entre tradition et rédaction / Jean-Marie Sevrin -- John and Thomas in conflict? / Ismo Dunderberg --"Blessed are those who have not seen" (Jn 20:29) : Johannine dramatization of an early Christian discourse / April D. De Conick -- Valentinian gnosticism : toward the anatomy of a school / Christoph Markschies -- The "kingless generation" and the polemical rewriting of certain Nag Hammadi texts / Louis Painchaud and Timothy Janz -- The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles : a reconsideration of the source question / Andrea Lorenzo Molinari -- Interpretation of the prologue to John's Gospel in some gnostic and patristic writings : a common tradition / Anne Pasquier.

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