Finding Early Christian Books at Nag Hammadi and Beyond

Nongbri Finding Books at Nag Hammadi 2016.pdf

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In two recent articles, Mark Goodacre (Goodacre 2013) and Nicola Denzey Lewis and Justine Ariel Blount (Denzey Lewis and Blount 2014) have raised a number of questions both about the reliability of what has become the “traditional” story of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices associated with the work of James M. Robinson and about the circumstances of the burial of the codices in antiquity. These articles constitute an important challenge to established opinions, and their theses are worthy of serious consideration.