Nag hammadi

Scholarly writings on material found in the Nag Hammadi codices have increasingly focused on their socio-historical contextualization, since the dismantling of Gnosticism as a coherent religious affiliative category - as initiated by Michael A. Williams (1996) and Karen L. King …

The Melchizedek Apocalypse is a Coptic text, written in the late second or early third century CE, by a Sethian gnostic author, and discovered near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. Only one extant copy of the document has survived, preserved in the translation of the original Greek, in Cod…

This dissertation offers a holistic review of the so-called "Platonizing Sethian apocalypses" discovered, in Coptic translation, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. These texts are of fundamental importance to the history of philosophy and early Christian literature, for they played…