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By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. Overview of intertexts between the works preserved in the Nag Hammadi Codices and Graeco-Egyptian magical and occult alchemical, astrological literature, focused on the question of the monastic provenance of the NHC. In short, the many intertexts shared between the Nag Hammadi and magical texts remind us of the close proximity between the production of these Coptic manuscripts and the world of magic in Roman Egypt. This situation encouraged the vision of the codices, at least for certain purposes, as an homogeneous entity. In this paper I shall assume that this vision is reasonable, in spite of the otherwise right opinion, which is now generally accepted, that technically the codices, and consequently the texts that they contain, cannot be considered as homogeneous, and I shall explain the sense and motivation of this assumption. This presupposes that I briefly recapitulate the main issues at stake. Let me remind first, that James Robinson in his paper which introduced the celebration of the fifty years from the discovery 3 has indicated the three main novelties brought by the texts in the field of religious studies: the importance of the sect that can be called of " the Sethians " , and the possibility to understand its doctrinal character with sufficient precision; the renovated attention for the apocrypha, with the possibility to better investigate the intertestamental literature; the new perspectives introduced by the Gospel of Thomas in the study of the logia and the sources and formation of the canonical Gospels. To this it should be added the study of the linguistic features of the texts, carried on mainly by Nagel, Kasser, and Funk: it is well known how the landscape of the Coptic dialects and the opinions on the birth of the Coptic language have been radically changed 4 as a consequence of the new documents. On the other hand, the question whether the NH codices may be taken as an individual collection, perhaps even as a library, or part of one library, rather than a fortuitous gathering of disparate entities, is still open. Alberto Camplani has recently written a lucid synthesis of the many stadies.

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By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. This situation encouraged the vision of the codices, at least for certain purposes, as an homogeneous entity. In this paper I shall assume that this vision is reasonable, in spite of the otherwise right opinion, which is now generally accepted, that technically the codices, and consequently the texts that they contain, cannot be considered as homogeneous, and I shall explain the sense and motivation of this assumption. This presupposes that I briefly recapitulate the main issues at stake.

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Several of the major texts in the Nag Hammadi collection have more than one translation listed; where multiple translations are provided, we have listed the translators' names in parenthesis below the title of the text. All of these ancient manuscripts had some areas of damage, some of the pages were very fragmentary. Sections of lost or unreadable text are usually indicated in the translations with ellipses [ All translations presented below have undergone modification, formatting, and minor revision for use in this internet edition. Several scholars have granted us permission to present their original translations of Nag Hammadi texts here in the Gnostic Society Library. We are particular indebted to the assistance and contributions of Dr. Willis Barnstone, Dr. John Turner, Dr. Stevan Davies, and the late Dr. Marvin Meyer.

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Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs, eds. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, vol. ME 03 Simonsohn Document 29 pages. Michele Caputo. Hanegraaff, Antoine Faivre and Roelof van den Broek. Voces Magicae and Superhuman Beings The interface of the content of the Nag Hammadi texts with our Graeco-Egyp- tian magical evidence is largely focused on the names of angels, demons, and deities shared between the two sets of corpora. In this lecture Dr. Copyright information is given with the various translations in the library; contributors to this collection retain all copyright to their works. In any case both contain a detailed list of the studies done so far. The birth of the Coptic literary language and consequently of the Coptic literature is due not so much to the desire to provide comprehensible text for those who did know Greek, as to a conscious cultural process which involved the Egyptian and Greek languages and cultures. Song Analysis Document 2 pages. Sign up for free Log in. Leicht, Reimund.

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The texts of NH have been submitted to detailed enquiries, concerning their origin, the reason why at a certain moment the codices were put together, and why they have been disposed of in a sealed jar; who may have trascribed and read them; who traslated them, and for what reason; and which were the criteria according to which the texts were assembled in one codex; what they reveal of the late gnostic movement of the IVth century, and also of the origin of gnosticism in general. Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Morenz 13 had some information about the NH fund, which he thought important, but in any case outside the Coptic literature proper. Peter New. Greco- Egyptian private ritual was clearly the product of a scribal class. Leiden etc. Slavic Paganism Document 12 pages. Papyrologica Leodiensia 5. In: Current Research in Egyptology Kropp, Angelicus M. Church and State in The Byzantine Empire. Piranomonte and F. More im- portantly, John D. Therefore it seems useful to include an English version of my review here. Be the first one to write a review.