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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2018

Spalte:

777–779

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Allgemeines

Autor/Hrsg.:

Lundhaug, Hugo, and Lance Jenott

Titel/Untertitel:

The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015. XVIII, 332 S. = Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 97. Kart. EUR 89,00. ISBN 978-3-16-154172-8.

Rezensent:

Nicola Denzey Lewis

Most academic studies aim to break new ground by challenging a long-extant theory or approach; this book differs by, instead, open-ing with the words of nineteenth-century Coptologist Walter Crum on the Fayum papyri: »As with all Coptic Literature, their monastic origin is evident« (1). In Hugo Lundhaugs and Lance Jenotts view, Crum was on to something: the Nag Hammadi codices (henceforth NHC) – discovered in Egypt around 1945 – should equally be considered monastic productions. The authors thus promote an essentially conservative position, which they argue for and support by a thorough analysis of the codices themselves. They maintain that these books were produced, read, circulated, and buried for safekeeping by Pachomian monks in the late fourth to mid-fifth centuries. This ...


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