Thesiss

Books and writing, says Jacques Derrida, are always concerned with questions of life and death. Nowhere is this more true than regarding the heavenly book motif. Widespread throughout the ancient Near East, the motif plays an important role in early Judeo-Christian literature, a…

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…

The mournful quality of apocalyptic literature dealing with the desolation of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem has remained largely unacknowledged, despite the numerous direct references to lamentation, weeping, and traditional mourning practices in them. As Sigmund Fre…