Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices

Dylan M. Burns (Ph.D. Yale University, 2011) is Assistant Professor of the History of Western Esotericism in Late Antiquity at the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His most recent book is Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy (Brill, 2020).Matthew Goff (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2002) is a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. His most recent publication is an edited volume, with Stefan Beyerle, Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (de Gruyter, 2022).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Introduction1 The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and the Joys of Weak ComparisonDylan M. Burns and Matthew GoffPart 2: New Antiquities: Initial Receptions of the Qumran and Nag Hammadi Corpora2 Artifact Migration and the Transport of Ancient Knowledge into Modernity: The Role of Human Cognition in the Process of ImmigrationApril D. DeConick3 The Impact of the Qumran and Nag Hammadi Discoveries on New Testament Scholarship: Dualism in John and Jesus’s Eschatology as ParadigmsJörg Frey4 Finding Stories: A Literary Critique of Certain Themes in the Story of the Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices and the Dead Sea ScrollsChristoph MarkschiesPart 3: Texts, Manuscripts, and Canons: Scripture, Scribes, and Exegesis at Qumran and Nag Hammadi5 Material Philology and the Nag Hammadi CodicesHugo Lundhaug6 Jewish Scrolls, Monastic Codices, and Material PhilologyMatthew Goff7 The Biblical Canons after Qumran and Nag Hammadi: Some Preliminary ObservationsJens SchröterPart 4: Portrayals of Patriarchs in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Codices8 From Adam to the Patriarchs: Some Biblical Figures in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi LibraryGeorge J. Brooke9 Celestial Landscapes and Heavenly Ascents: The Slavonic Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch the Just (2 Enoch)Florentina Badalanova Geller10 It Didn’t Happen the Way Moses Said It Did: Exegesis, Creativity, and Enochic Traditions in the Apocryphon of JohnMatthew Goff11 Enochic Literature in Nag Hammadi Texts: The Enochic Myth of Angelic Descent as Interpretative Pattern?Claudia Losekam12 Blenders of the Lost Arks: Noah’s Ark and the Ark of the Covenant as One in Gnostic and Other Judeo-Christian LiteratureTuomas RasimusPart 5: “Weak Comparison” in Praxis: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Themes in the Qumran and Nag Hammadi Literatures13 Revealers and Revelation from Qumran to Nag HammadiHarold W. Attridge14 There Is No Soul in a Sect, Only Spirit and Flesh: Soteriological Determinism in the Tripartite Tractate (NHC I,5) and the “Vision of Hagu” (4QInstruction)Dylan M. Burns15 The Visionary’s View: Otherworldly Motifs and Their Use/Reuse in Texts of Qumran and Nag HammadiKelley Coblentz Bautch16 Expressions of Pseudepigraphy in the Qumran Aramaic Fragments and First Impressions of the Nag Hammadi CodicesAndrew B. PerrinIndex of Citations of Ancient TextsIndex of Modern Authors