Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the “Letter” in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt

Given, Jock; Lied, Liv Ingeborg; Lundhaug, Hugo

doi:10.1515/9783110348057-012

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110348057-012

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Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the “Letter” in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt

Jock Given¹,

Liv Ingeborg Lied²,

Hugo Lundhaug³

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“… 42. Given (2017: 216-17) observes that the ‘intimacy’ of ApocrJas’s epistolary character itself signals the reader’s privilege in receiving this exclusive revelation. …”

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The Gospel of John as Model for Literate Authors and their Texts in Epistula Apostolorum and Apocryphon of James (NHC I,2)

Lindenlaub

2020

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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The Gospel of John (GJohn) bears a striking resemblance to two later Jesus books, Epistula Apostolorum (EpAp) and Apocryphon of James (ApocrJas) (NHC I,2), in making authority claims that appeal to the socio-cultural significance of the textual medium. In all three, these claims are twofold: (1) internally ascribing authorship to representative figures of the early Jesus tradition portrayed as literate; (2) explicitly emphasizing the written medium of these authors’ compositions. GJohn can provide an instructive model for understanding these features in EpAp and ApocrJas, as both are demonstrably familiar with GJohn. EpAp and ApocrJas consequently can be examined alongside GJohn’s editorial expansion in ch. 21 as examples of early readers and users of GJohn exhibiting comparable claims regarding literate authors and their texts – applied to the Beloved Disciple (GJohn), the ‘Eleven’ apostles (EpAp) and James (ApocrJas).

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“… 42. Given (2017: 216-17) observes that the ‘intimacy’ of ApocrJas’s epistolary character itself signals the reader’s privilege in receiving this exclusive revelation. …”

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The Gospel of John as Model for Literate Authors and their Texts in Epistula Apostolorum and Apocryphon of James (NHC I,2)

Lindenlaub

2020

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Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism

Larsen

2017

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Notions of ‘authorship’, ‘publication’ and ‘ﬁnal text’ are often mentioned in traditional textual criticism, but less frequently discussed in detail. The projects of source and redaction criticism end and textual criticism begins based on when scholars imagine a text was ﬁnished. Yet modern notions of publication, textuality and authorship, which are largely shaped by the printing press, are often anachronistically applied to the ancient world. Exploring evidence from Plato to 4 Ezra to Tertullian and Augustine, I take up the question of when a text was considered ‘ﬁnal’ by reconsidering what counted as publication in the ancient world. Once the assumption of textual ﬁnalization is set aside, the tools traditionally associated with textual, source and redaction criticism become unhelpful. While textual critics have noted the practical impossibilities of arriving at the ‘original text’, I demonstrate the conceptual roadblocks to imagining an ‘original’ and ‘ﬁnal’ text in the ancient world.

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Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the “Letter” in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt

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The Gospel of John as Model for Literate Authors and their Texts in Epistula Apostolorum and Apocryphon of James (NHC I,2)

The Gospel of John as Model for Literate Authors and their Texts in Epistula Apostolorum and Apocryphon of James (NHC I,2)

Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism

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