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Article: Nag Hammadi Deutsch, 1. Band: NHC I, 1-V,1: Eingeleitet und ubersetzt von Mitgliedern des Berliner Arbeitskreises fur Koptisch-Gnostische Schriften
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- Journal of Biblical Literature
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- October 1, 2002
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Nag Hammadi Deutsch, 1. Band: NHC I1,-V,1: Eingeleitet and iibersetzt von Mitgliedern des Berliner Arbeitskreises fur Koptisch-Gnostische Schriften, ed. Hans-Martin Schenke, Hans-Gebhard Bethge, and Ursula Ulrike Kaiser. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xxi + 397. C98,00.
This impressive volume, containing a German translation of the first half of the Nag Hammadi Codices with introductions and notes, is the best one-volume treatment that has yet appeared in any language, a striking instance of the tenacity of the German scholarly tradition through thick and thin.
Berlin has, for over a century, been the leading center of scholarship in the fields of Gnosticism and Coptology. ...