This volume presents the proceedings of a conference held in 2015 at Humboldt University Berlin to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices. The idea of the volume is to interpret the Nag Hammadi writings as part of the history of literature and theology of ancient Christianity.
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference held in 2015 at Humboldt University Berlin to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices. The idea of the volume is to interpret the Nag Hammadi writings as part of the history of literature and theology of ancient Christianity. This approach articulates an aspect often neglected in research on these writings. In previous scholarship, the place of the Nag Hammadi writings within ancient Gnosticism was often discussed as was the relationship of several of these texts to the New Testament writings. This volume, however, takes a different view. The Nag Hammadi writings are analysed according to their literary genres (e.g. apocalypses, theological and philosophical treatises, gospels). Renowned scholars ask how these genres are realized in the Nag Hammadi tractates and how their place within the literature and theology of ancient Christianity can be determined.
Table of contents:
Jens Schröter: Einleitung -
Christoph Markschies: Offene Fragen zur historischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Einordnung der Nag-Hammadi-Schriften -
John D. Turner: The Reception and Transformation of Philosophical Literary Genres in the Nag Hammadi Writings
I. Apokalypsen in den Nag-Hammadi-Codices
Gregor Wurst: Apokalypsen in den Nag-Hammadi-Codices -
Jaan Lahe: Die Apokalypse des Adam als ein Werk am Rande der Theologie- und Literaturgeschichte des frühen Christentums -
Dylan M. Burns: Is the Apocalypse of Paul a Valentinian Apocalypse? Pseudepigraphy and Group Definition in NHC V,2
II. Mythologische Traktate in den Nag-Hammadi-Codices
Nicola Denzey Lewis: Mythological Treatises in the Nag Hammadi Codices -
Ursula Ulrike Kaiser: »Und sie wurde unter ihren Händen ein Baum« (HA, NHC II,4 p. 89,26f.). Die Hypostase der Archonten und die antike Mythologie -
Karen L. King: The Apocryphon of John: Genre and Christian Re-Making of the World
III. Liturgische Texte in den Nag-Hammadi-Codices
Hugo Lundhaug: Prayer in the Nag Hammadi Codices -
Antti Marjanen: Baptism in the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (NHC III,2 and IV,2)
IV. Evangelien in den Nag-Hammadi-Codices
Simon Gathercole: The Nag Hammadi Gospels -
Paul-Hubert Poirier: From 1897 to 2015: Some Aspects of the Research on the Gospel according to Thomas -
Katrine Brix: The Gospel of Truth -
Judith Hartenstein: Die Weisheit Jesu Christi (SJC)
V. Theologische und philosophische Traktate in den Nag-Hammadi-Codices
Einar Thomassen: Theological and Philosophical Treatises in the Nag Hammadi Codices -
Uwe-Karsten Plisch: Zostrianus, der philosophisch orientierte Sethianismus und das Gebet des Seth
