James M. Robinson

The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert. They were acquired in about equal halves by A. Chester Beatty for his library and by Carl Schmidt for the papyrus collection of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin. Having had access to the inventories, correspondence, and files in Berlin, Robinson provides translations of the German and French documents to increase access to information previously unavailable to the scholarly community. He narrates the slow and problem-ridden path of the acquisition, conservation, and editing of these important works, including their movements between dealers, collectors, scholars, and the military in Egypt, London, Dublin, Berlin, Schondorf, Gottingen, Warsaw, Leningrad, Los Angeles, Claremont, and Copenhagen.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725243651
• Artikelnr.: 60127339

Autorenporträt

James M. Robinson is Professor of Religion Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University. Among his many publications are Language, History, and Hermeneutic; The Gospel of Jesus; The Secrets of Judas; and The Sayings Gospel Q: Collected Essays. He is also the general editor of The Nag Hammadi Library in English and The Coptic Gnostic Library.