The Nag Hammadi Story is t a history of research in the usual sense of a Forschungsbericht, which would report on the massive amount of scholarship that has been devoted to the content of the Nag Hammadi Codices for more than a half-century. Rather it is a socio-historical narration of just what went on during the thirty-two years from their discovery late in 1945, via their initial trafficking, and then the attempts to mopolize them, until finally, through the intervention of UNESCO, the whole collection of thirteen Codices was published in facsimiles and in English translation, both completed late in 1977.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9004262512
ISBN-13
9789004262515
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208844415
Product Key Features
Author
James M. Robinson
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Alternative Belief Systems
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Leiden
Issn
0929-2470
Series Part/Volume Number
No. 86
Series Title
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
Author Biography
James M. Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Claremont Graduate University. He was the General Editor of the Coptic Gnostic Library (Brill, 1975-1996), The Nag Hammadi Library in English (revised most recently in 2007 with Dr. Marvin Meyer as editor) and he served as the Permanent Secretary for UNESCO's International Committee for the Nag Hammadi Codices.