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Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated questions and scholarly debate as to their date and function. Paul Linjamaa contributes to the discussion by offering insights into previously uncharted aspects pertinent to the materiality of the manuscripts. He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices. He also demonstrates that the texts were used for perfecting scribal and editorial practice, and that they were used as protective artefacts containing sacred symbols in the continuous monastic warfare against evil spirits. Linjamaa's application of new material methods provides clues to the origins and use of ancient texts, and challenges preconceptions about ancient orthodoxy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Gnostic literature --- Coptic manuscripts. --- Monasticism and religious orders --- History --- Pachomius, --- Nag Hammadi codices --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Criticism, Textual.

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The present volume offers twelve studies dealing with feminine figures in Gnosticism and Manichaeism. In Part One ("Images et symboles"), the Author unveils the hidden meaning of some feminine figures having played a role on the mythical scene of those trends. Some of these figures, borrowed from other traditions, have been deeply reworked by Gnostics or Manichees assuming thereby a new significance. An intermezzo ("Passages") investigates the presence of women names in titles preserved in the Nag Hammadi Library and the relationship between a female protagonist and a specific literary genre. Part Two ("Histoire et réalité") reconstructs the portraits of some women, especially Manichaean, to whom the historical inquiry gives life again, thanks to a fresh reading of first hand sources, as well of heresiological or archeological testimonies. Some of these studies have been previously published and have now been significantly updated and expanded. Some others are lectures on Feminine in Gnosticism and Manichaeism given by the Author in Sorbonne, Paris, since 1994. *** Les douze études que rassemble ce volume abordent sous différentes facettes le personnage de la femme dans la gnose et dans le manichéisme. Dans la première partie (« Images et symboles »), l'Auteur dévoile la signification cachée de quelques figures féminines qui ont joué un rôle sur la scène du mythe. Si les auteurs gnostiques et manichéens ont emprunté certaines d'entre elles à d'autres traditions, ils ont toutefois remodelé ces figures en profondeur en les chargeant d'une nouvelle signification. La deuxième partie (« Passages ») s'interroge sur la présence de noms féminins dans les titres conservés de la bibliothèque de Nag Hammadi et sur la relation éventuelle entre une protagoniste féminine et le choix d'un genre littéraire. La troisième partie (« Histoire et réalité ») reconstruit les portraits de quelques femmes, surtout manichéennes, dont les traits effacés se précisent grâce à une lecture originale de la documentation directe et des sources hérésiologiques, grâce aussi à l'apport de l'archéologie. Une partie de ces études, publiée auparavant, paraît ici sous une forme largement amplifiée. D'autres reprennent les thèmes de conférences sur la femme dans le manichéisme, données par l'Auteur à la Sorbonne entre 1997 et 2002.

Gnosticism. --- Nag Hammadi codices. --- Manichaeism. --- Women in Christianity --- Women --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Bibliotheek van Nag Hammadi --- Bibliothèque de Nag Hammadi --- Codices de Nag Hammadi --- Codices van Nag Hammadi --- Gnose --- Gnosis --- Gnosticism --- Gnosticisme --- Handschriften van Nag Hammadi --- Manichaeism --- Manicheïsme --- Manichéens --- Manichéisme --- Manuscrits de Nag Hammadi --- Nag Hammadi codices --- Nag Hammadi teksten --- Nag Hammadi texts --- Religion manichéenne --- Textes de Nag Hammadi --- Église manichéenne --- 273.1 --- 273.21 --- 273.21 Manicheïsme --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Cults --- Nag Hammadi library --- Chenoboskion manuscripts --- Nag Hammadi manuscripts --- Khenoboskion manuscripts --- Najʻ Ḥammādī texts --- Women in Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Women - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600.

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This is the third volume of the immensely useful Nag Hammadi Bibliography , the first volume of which covered 1948–1969 and was the first publication in the Nag Hammadi Studies series. The second volume covered 1970–1994. This third volume provides a complete integration of Supplements II/1–II/8 to the Bibliography as published in Novum Testamentum 1998–2008, with additions and corrections. This latest update contains 3,063 entries, with the set of three volumes containing 11,580 entries. Nag Hammadi and Gnostic studies continue to be of critical importance for the study of ancient religions in the Graeco-Roman world and for the study of the world of early Christianity, and the present bibliography provides an indispensable reference tool for work in these fields.

Gnosticism --- Nag Hammadi codices --- 091 <620 CAIRO> --- 091 =932 --- 273.1*35 --- -273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- 091 =932 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Koptisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Koptisch --- 091 <620 CAIRO> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Egypte--CAIRO --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Egypte--CAIRO --- Bibliography --- Gnosticisme --- Bibliography. --- Bibliographie --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Nag Hammadi library --- Chenoboskion manuscripts --- Nag Hammadi manuscripts --- Khenoboskion manuscripts --- Najʻ Ḥammādī texts --- Nag Hammadi texts --- Cults --- Gnosticism - Bibliography

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This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.”.

Martyrologies --- Church history --- Gnosticism --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Nag Hammadi codices. --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Nag Hammadi library --- Chenoboskion manuscripts --- Nag Hammadi manuscripts --- Khenoboskion manuscripts --- Najʻ Ḥammādī texts --- Nag Hammadi texts --- Religion. --- Bible --- Religion --- Religion and sociology. --- Religious Studies. --- Biblical Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Theology. --- Philosophy. --- 27 "00/02" --- 235.3*7 --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- 27 "00/02" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/02" --- 27 "00/02" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/02" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Necrologies --- Bible-Theology. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Bible—Theology. --- Religion—Philosophy.