• Abbreviations Preface Abstract Introduction: The Fate of the Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi, 1929-1989
• Part 1: The Acquisition and Initial Conservation and Editing
• 1. The Acquisitions of Carl Schmidt
• 2. The Acquisitions of Chester Beatty
• 3. The Conservation by Hugo Ibscher
• 4. Beatty, Ibscher, and Polotsky
• 5. The Effects of World War II
• Part 2: The Conservation by Rolf Ibscher
• 6. The Conservation of the Material in the State Museums of the Former East Berlin
• 7. The Conservation of the Material in Schondorf/Goettingen/West Berlin
• 8. The Conservation of the Material in London/Dublin Inventories of Individual Codices
• Part 3: The Berlin Holdings
• 9. P15995 Synaxeis
• 10. P15996 Kephalaia, Volume One
• 11. P15997 Acts
• 12. P15998 Letters
• 13. P15999 Homilies (Berlin Part)
• Part 4: The Dublin Holdings
• 14. The Wooden Covers
• 15. Codex A: Psalms
• 16. Codex B: Synaxeis
• 17. Codex C: Kephalaia, Volume Two
• 18. Codex D: Homilies (Dublin Part) Collectors, Dealers, and Scholars Bibliography Index of Names.
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The seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert. They were acquired in about equal halves by A. Chester Beatty for his library and by Carl Schmidt for the papyrus collection of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin. Having had access to the inventories, correspondence, and files in Berlin, Robinson provides translations of the German and French documents to increase access to information previously unavailable to the scholarly community. He narrates the slow and problem-ridden path of the acquisition, conservation, and editing of these important works, including their movements between dealers, collectors, scholars, and the military in Egypt, London, Dublin, Berlin, Schondorf, Gottingen, Warsaw, Leningrad, Los Angeles, Claremont, and Copenhagen.
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• Volume
• 1. The discovery and monopoly
• volume
• 2. The publication.

• Preface Part One Introduction 1 The Bodmer Papyri 2 Bodmer Papyri in the Chester Beatty Library Part Two 3 Mississippi, Cologne, Barcelona 4 The Dishna Papers 5 The Pachomian Library
• Appendix 1: The Pachomian Monastic Library at the Chester Beatty Library and the Bibliotheque Bodmer
• Appendix 2: List of Papyrus Bodmer Publications Collectors, Dealers, Scholars, and Institutes Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Index of Names.
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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.
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• Preface Part One Introduction 1 The Bodmer Papyri 2 Bodmer Papyri in the Chester Beatty Library Part Two 3 Mississippi, Cologne, Barcelona 4 The Dishna Papers 5 The Pachomian Library
• Appendix 1: The Pachomian Monastic Library at the Chester Beatty Library and the Bibliotheque Bodmer
• Appendix 2: List of Papyrus Bodmer Publications Collectors, Dealers, Scholars, and Institutes Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Index of Names.
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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.
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• The German discussion of the later Heidegger
• Hermeneutic since Barth
• Revelation as word and as history.

• The critical edition of Q and the study of Jesus
• From Jesus from Easter to Valentinus (or to the Apostles' Creed)
• The real Jesus of the sayings Gospel Q
• Very goddess and very man: Jesus' better self
• The Son of Man in the sayings Gospel Q
• Jesus' theology in the sayings Gospel Q
• What Jesus had to say
• The Jesus of Q as liberation theologian
• The image of Jesus in Q
• The Q trajectory: between John and Matthew via Jesus
• Theological autobiography.

The discovery of a previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community. What Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us about Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is inconsistent and biased. Therefore, the revelation of an ancient gospel that portrays this despised man as someone who saw his role in the Passion of Christ as integral to a larger plan--a divine plan--brings new clarity to the old story. If Judas had not betrayed Jesus, Jesus would not have been handed over to the authorities, crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. Could it be that without Judas, the Easter miracle would never have happened? In "The Secrets of Judas", James M. Robinson, an expert historian of early Christianity, examines the Bible and other ancient texts and reveals what we can and cannot know about the life of the historical Judas, his role in Jesus's crucifixion, and whether the Christian church should reevaluate his intentions and possible innocence. Robinson tells the sensational story of the discovery of a gospel attributed to Judas, and shows how this affects Judas's newfound meaning for history and for the Christian faith.
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An examination of the preachings of Jesus as they may have been delivered to his original audience draws on ancient sources to evaluate Christ's life, Jewish faith, and beliefs about God in order to differentiate his original teachings from those endorsed by the church, in an account that also explores how Jesus's original gospels are relevant to t.
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The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English with Parallels from the Gospels of Mark and Thomas is the outcome of a generation's work (by the International Q Project) in reconstructing the collection of the sayings ascribed to Jesus (and some to John) that lies behind the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is an important source for reconstructing the message of Jesus' original Galilean followers as they proclaimed anew after his death his message of God's reign. Q is, as a result, the most important single source for the study of the historical Jesus. It should be in the hands of every student of theology and every layperson seriously interested in knowing more about Jesus. This small volume presents, on facing pages, the Greek and English reconstruction of the text of Q, in a simplified and more readable format than the original publication The Critical Edition of Q: Synopsis including the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, Mark and Thomas with English, German and French Translations of Q and Thomas (Peeters 2000).
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• Introduction-- English Translation-- Interpreting the Gospel of Thomas today-- The Story of the Nag Hammadi Library-- Further Reading.
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The best text and the best translation are presented in this classic introductory book to the "Gospel of Thomas". In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered a sealed jar containing thirteen ancient Coptic codices. This discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. Of all the texts found none has been more important than the "Gospel of Thomas" for our understanding of early Christianity. This classic book presents the best text and the best translation of Thomas in user-friendly form. Additional chapters provide a general introduction to the "Gospel of Thomas" and tell the fascinating story of that discovery itself by one who was directly involved in bringing this new Gospel to light. An annotated list 'for further reading' completes the volume. This new edition features updated material which takes account of recent research on the "Gospel of Thomas". The translation has been refined at points, and the bibliographical material updated.
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