2016/07/06 by Dylan M. Burns · 8 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Ancient Near East History #Orientalism #Context (archaeology) #History #Literature #Philosophy #Classics #Art #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1558/bsor.v45i2.28176
published in Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45(2), 5-11 (Equinox Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2016/07/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Recent publications by Mark Goodacre and Nicola Denzey Lewis and Ariel Blount, raise the question of how we should tell the story of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices, and to what extent the work of James M. Robinson remains useful for us in telling this story. This article addresses the issue of the wilder elements of the story as related by Robinson as well as the problem of its orientalist implications, concluding with meditations on how to read the Codices within their late ancient Egyptian context.