Auf der Grundlage neuerer Forschungen, die darauf hindeuten, dass die Nag-Hammadi-Kodizes von frühen ägyptischen Mönchen erstellt und verwendet wurden, fragen die Aufsätze dieses Bandes, wie und warum Mönche die in diesen Kodizes enthaltenen Texte gelesen haben würden.
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Born 1970; 2000 Cand. philol. from the University of Oslo; 2007 Dr. art. in the History of Religions from the University of Bergen; Professor of Theology (Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature) at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology.
Born 1978; 2003 Cand. philol. from the University of Bergen; 2014 Dr. art. in the History of Religions from the University of Bergen; Associate Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Bergen, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion.
Christian H. Bull/Hugo Lundhaug: Monastic Readings of the Nag Hammadi Codices - Lance Jenott: Peter's Letter to Philip: Textual Fluidity in a New Testament Apocryphon - Ingvild Sælid Gilhus: Ascetic Readings in Codex II from Nag Hammadi - René Falkenberg: The 'Single Ones' in the Gospel of Thomas: A Monastic Perspective - André Gagné: The Gospel of Thomas in a Monastic Context: Reading the Text as a Spiritual Exercise - Hugo Lundhaug: "This is the Teaching of the Perfect Ones": The Book of Thomas and Early Egyptian Monasticism - Kristine Toft Rosland: "Not as Moses Said" Revisited: Christ as Interpreter of Scripture in the Apocryphon of John - Kimberley A. Fowler: Eschatology in Nag Hammadi Codex II: A Monastic Reading of the Hypostasis of the Archons (NHC II,4) and On the Origin of the World (NHC II,5) - Paul Linjamaa: Why Monks Would Have Read the Tripartite Tractate: A New Look at the Codicology of Nag Hammadi Codex I - Tilde Bak Halvgaard: The Thunder: Perfect Mind and the Notion of Epinoia in Early Christianity - Dylan M. Burns: The Nag Hammadi Codices and Graeco-Egyptian Magical and Occult Literature - Christian Askeland: Translation Technique in the Coptic Version of Plato's Republic - Christian H. Bull: Plato in Upper Egypt: Greek Philosophy and Monastic Origenism in the Coptic Excerpt from Plato's Republic (NHC VI,5)