The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices : selected papers from the conference "The Dead Sea Scrolls and The Nag Hammadi Codices" in Berlin, 20-22 July 2018

"The discoveries of Coptic books containing "Gnostic" scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism. Yet, impeded by academic insularity and delays in publication, scholars never conducted a full-scale, comparative investigation of these two sensational corpora-until now. Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices"-- Provided by publisher 9789004517561_1 9789004517561_2 Contents Acknowledgments Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and the Joys of Weak Comparison Part 2 New Antiquities: Initial Receptions of the Qumran and Nag Hammadi Corpora Chapter 2 Artifact Migration and the Transport of Ancient Knowledge into Modernity: The Role of Human Cognition in the Process of Immigration Chapter 3 The Impact of the Qumran and Nag Hammadi Discoveries on New Testament Scholarship: Dualism in John and Jesus’s Eschatology as Paradigms Chapter 4 Finding Stories: A Literary Critique of Certain Themes in the Story of the Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices and the Dead Sea Scrolls Part 3 Texts, Manuscripts, and Canons: Scripture, Scribes, and Exegesis at Qumran and Nag Hammadi Chapter 5 Material Philology and the Nag Hammadi Codices Chapter 6 Jewish Scrolls, Monastic Codices, and Material Philology Chapter 7 The Biblical Canons after Qumran and Nag Hammadi: Some Preliminary Observations Part 4 Portrayals of Patriarchs in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices Chapter 8 From Adam to the Patriarchs: Some Biblical Figures in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library Chapter 9 Celestial Landscapes and Heavenly Ascents: The Slavonic Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch the Just (2 Enoch) Chapter 10 It Didn’t Happen the Way Moses Said It Did: Exegesis, Creativity, and Enochic Traditions in the Apocryphon of John Chapter 11 Enochic Literature in Nag Hammadi Texts: The Enochic Myth of Angelic Descent as Interpretative Pattern? Chapter 12 Blenders of the Lost Arks: Noah’s Ark and the Ark of the Covenant as One in Gnostic and Other Judeo-Christian Literature Part 5 “Weak Comparison” in Praxis: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Themes in the Qumran and Nag Hammadi Literatures Chapter 13 Revealers and Revelation from Qumran to Nag Hammadi Chapter 14 There Is No Soul in a Sect, Only Spirit and Flesh: Soteriological Determinism in the Tripartite Tractate (NHC I,5) and the “Vision of Hagu” (4QInstruction) Chapter 15 The Visionary’s View: Otherworldly Motifs and Their Use/Reuse in Texts of Qumran and Nag Hammadi Chapter 16 Expressions of Pseudepigraphy in the Qumran Aramaic Fragments and First Impressions of the Nag Hammadi Codices Index of Citations of Ancient Texts Index of Modern Authors