The Nag Hammadi story

The Nag Hammadi Story is a socio-historical narration of just what went on during the thirty-two years from their discovery late in 1945, via their initial trafficking, and then attempts to monopolize, until finally their publication in 1977.

Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings

studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex

In Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings the authors explore evidence arising from their project to edit the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex. This new presents Mani at the heart of Sasanian Iran in dialogue with its sages and nobles, acting as a cultural ...

Poetics of the gnostic universe

narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John

This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth ...