Coptic Apocrypha
New Frontiers – New Perspectives
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Beschreibung
Drawing on theoretical and methodological perspectives ranging from material philology and digital humanities to cognitive science, the contributors to this volume present novel approaches to the study of the nature and functions of Coptic apocrypha in the context of late antique and early Islamic Egypt.
The contributors to this volume present detailed and groundbreaking studies of Coptic apocrypha in the context of Egypt in late antiquity and the early Islamic period, including new editions as well as studies synthesizing their history and development over the centuries. They explore the monastic context of the production and use of apocrypha, the relationship between apocrypha, liturgy and magic, and the role of apocrypha in doctrinal controversies. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on new theoretical and methodological approaches, including digital humanities and cognitive perspectives; the second part consists of new editions with commentary; and the third part contains studies contextualizing Coptic apocrypha. The book covers the entire period of Coptic literary production, from the fourth to the fourteenth century, i.e., all the way from the early Nag Hammadi Codices and the Tchacos Codex to the much later pseudo-patristic homiletic writings deriving from monasteries all along the Nile valley. It should be of interest to scholars of "Gnosticism," monasticism, literary and media studies, late antique religion, magic, and liturgy, as well as patristic studies. Methodologically, the contributors ground their work in material philology, with a keen interest in scribal practices and fluid textual transmission; detail the design and function of a sophisticated relational database of Coptic apocrypha, based on the PostgreSQL platform, and explain how this database can be used for statistical as well as network analyses of Coptic apocrypha in light of the contexts of their material carriers; and explore the use of 4E Cognition to deepen the understanding of the functions of Coptic apocrypha in the communities in which they were produced and used.
Autor*in
Hugo Lundhaug
Born 1970; 2000 Cand. philol. from the University of Oslo; 2007 Dr. art. in the History of Religions from the University of Bergen; Professor of Theology (Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature) at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology.
Themen in »Coptic Apocrypha«
apocryphal texts cognition complex adaptive systems Coptic apocrypha Coptic magic Coptic manuscripts digital humanities doctrinal controversies Early Islam Egyptology Late Antiquity liturgical apocrypha material philology monastic literature Nag Hammadi