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Article: The Teachings of Sylvanus (Nag Hammadi Codex VII, 4): Text, Translation, Commentary.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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This edition of a text known both within the present work and to readers of The Nag Hammadi Library in English as "Silvanus" (hereafter Silv) presents the text and a translation. Commentary on the text makes up the bulk of the book wherein the text is examined in the light of six areas. Summaries of these are then given in six excursus (on biblical material, Philo, Stoa, Platonism, Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi texts, and patristic texts). Greek and Coptic indices conclude the work. For bibliographical references, the reader is referred to the edition of Janssens, Les Lecons de Silvanos (Quebec: Laval, 1983).
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