A Catechesis against Apocryphal Texts by Shenute and the Gnostic Texts of Nag Hammadi

While the discovery of the Manichaean, and then the Gnostic, MS collections in Coptic has provoked a number of studies on the broad cultural context of these two religious movements, the specific Egyptian environment in which the MSS were transmitted remains largely unknown. Lack of documentation ge...

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Main Author: Orlandi, Tito (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1982
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1982, Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-95
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Summary:While the discovery of the Manichaean, and then the Gnostic, MS collections in Coptic has provoked a number of studies on the broad cultural context of these two religious movements, the specific Egyptian environment in which the MSS were transmitted remains largely unknown. Lack of documentation generally accounts for this ignorance. Especially in the case of the Coptic Gnostic library, all sorts of ideas and religious sects have been called forth to comment upon the corpus and to explain, it seems, everything except what was common in the Nile valley in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D.
ISSN:1475-4517
Contains:Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000018228