The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott (review)

• Autores: Louis Painchaud
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 497-499
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • According to the authors, the purpose of their study is to demonstrate that “available evidence concerning the provenance of the NHC is best explained by a Christian monastic origin in Upper Egypt” (1). While this book is extremely well-documented and completed by useful bibliography and indices, the present reviewer is not convinced that replacing “Gnostics” with “Pachomian monastics” is acknowledging the high degree of complexity involved in the production, destination, circulation, and final ownership of the various codices discovered at the Jabal al-Tarif. [...]this study leaves aside the codices Bruce, Askew, and Tchacos, which are closely related to the Nag Hammadi collection. [...]a study of the reception of Nag Hammadi’s texts and their literary and doctrinal contents in the context of Egypt in the fourth and fifth centuries implies a set of considerations that have nothing to do with the physical manufacture of codices and the copies of the texts they contain.