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Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy: A Selection of Coptic Texts with Grammatical Analysis and Glossary

Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy: A Selection of Coptic Texts with Grammatical Analysis and Glossary

Layton, B.

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ISBN10: 9042912545
ISBN13: 9789042912540
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jun 7 2004
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Layton's Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy is an essential tool for scholarsand students of the Gnostic corpus. This useful and accurate text editioncontains a large, representative selection of works in Coptic, rangingfrom Sethian Gnostic classics such as the Apocryphon of John toValentinian works like the Gospel of Truth and Gospel of Philip to theMesopotamian Gospel of Thomas the Contender , all but one from the NagHammadi manuscript hoard. Laid out in a readable literary format, theCoptic text is discreetly analyzed into its component morphs, clarifyingthe grammatical structure at every point. Greek words are annotated infootnotes, and esoteric Gnostic vocabulary in Egyptian Coptic is coveredin a separate glossary. A brief introduction to each work points toinformation on problems of dialect, grammar, manuscript, and scholarlybibliography. Prepared by a leading expert on Gnosticism and the Copticlanguage, this is the ideal Gnostic text collection, in a single volume, for the use of scholars of religion, Egyptologists, Coptologists, teachers, and students. Contents (in Coptic): Apocryphon of John, Apocalypse of Adam, Hypostasis of the Archons, Thunder-Perfect Mind, Trimorphic Protennoia, Gospel of the Egyptians, Zostrianos, Allogenes, Three Steles of Seth, Gospel of Truth, Prayer of the Apostle Paul, Treatise on Resurrection, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Thomas, Book ofThomas the Contender. Corresponding English translations of all theseworks can be found in Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures .

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