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Article: The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years: Proceedings of hte 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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JOHN D. TURNER and ANNE McGUIRE (eds.), The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration (NHMS 44; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1997). Pp. xviii + 531. NLG 300, $187.50.
In 1995 the Society of Biblical Literature, at its Annual Meeting, sponsored a series of programs commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices. In this volume are collected twenty-four of the papers delivered on that occasion. The essays are divided into five units: (I) "Past, Present, and Future Research," (2) "The Apocryphon of John, "(3) "The Gospel of Philip, "(4) "The Gospel of Thomas, "and (5) "Issues of Social ...