The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monasterys Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin and The Fifth Gospel

The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monasterys Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin

Name: The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monasterys Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin
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Author: James M Robinson
ISBN: 9781597528825

by James M Robinson

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Publisher: Cascade Books
15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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Synopsis: The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of the first monastic order was located. The Bodmer Papyri discovery consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in hiding at the monastery. These treasures were preserved in a jar hidden in the mountain where monks were buried. This book traces the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end. Endorsements: "Only James M. Robinson--based largely on first-hand experience--could recall, review, and evaluate the intricate details of the discovery and collection of the Dishn_ papers, which became part of the "Bodmer papyri." In a detective-like fashion, he traces the complex history of this sizable collection, utilizing conversations, letters, and reports from native discoverers, Egyptian antiquities dealers, collectors of manuscripts, museum curators and conservators, as well as papyrologists, Coptologists, and editors of Greek, Latin, and Coptic texts. This history can never again be retrieved, and Robinson's account will serve all future generations." --Eldon Jay Epp author of Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism "As a young professor at the University of Geneva at the end of the sixties, I was invited with my students by Mr. Martin Bodmer to visit his collection of New Testament Papyri. Since then I have a special connection and affection to these manuscripts. I am grateful therefore to James M. Robinson for his patient inquiry. I cannot confirm everything that he says, but I can assure the readers that the scholar from Claremont put his many talents toward trying to solve some of the many riddles of the Bodmer Papyri." --Fran

Author
James M Robinson
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cascade Books
Published
January 2011
Weight
318g
Dimensions
15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm
ISBN
9781597528825
ISBN-10
159752882X
Eden Code
5073460

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