Resumen de The Nag Hammadi Story
Harold W. Attridge (res.)
The archaeological investigation, however, did not find confirmatory evidence, nor was Robinson able to confirm 'All\'s claim to have found remains of a corpse near the jar containing the codices. What emerged from the efforts of that committee was not only the facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi collection, which enabled a new wave of scholarship with broad international participation; it also led to the creation of the International Association for Coptic Studies, a scholarly guild which continues its collabora- tive work. The history ends with the publication of the Nag Hammadi Library in English, of which Robinson was the general editor and which contained the translations that appeared in the Coptic Gnostic Library. Since the publication of the facsimiles and the NHLE, scholars have continued to enhance our understanding of the language of the texts themselves, of the variety of the literary and religious phenomena to which they attest, and of the complexity of the social worlds from which they emerged. Robinson's account, an archive of detailed information, will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of scholarship and the ethos of a segment of the international scholarly community of the second half of the twentieth century.
