(Still) Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Nicola Denzey Lewis on what we know about Nag Hammadi The find story of the Nag Hammadi codices is well known to anyone
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Nag Hammadi
Origin Stories: A Forum on the “Discovery” and Interpretation of First-Millennium Manuscripts.
Introduction – Jennifer Barry (University of Mary Washington) and Eva Mroczek (UC Davis) Cluster #1 Årstein Justnes (University of Agder, Norway) – Fragments for Sale:
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Origins Forum: Discovery and Interpretation of First-Millennium Manuscripts.
Jennifer Barry and Eva Mroczek on the Origins Forum The lure of new discovery is powerful, and some of the most celebrated finds
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Batshit Stories: New Tales of Discovering Ancient Texts
Eva Mroczek on stories of discovery In his short story Forevermore, Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon relates the story of a scholar, Adiel Amzeh.
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Gnostic Apocalypse Now! – By Tuomas Rasimus
Tuomas Rasimus on Dylan M. Burns’s Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism Ever since the chance discovery in
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