The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years: Proceedings of hte 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

JOHN D. TURNER and ANNE McGUIRE (eds.), The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration (NHMS 44; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1997). Pp. xviii + 531. NLG 300, $187.50.

In 1995 the Society of Biblical Literature, at its Annual Meeting, sponsored a series of programs commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices. In this volume are collected twenty-four of the papers delivered on that occasion. The essays are divided into five units: (I) "Past, Present, and Future Research," (2) "The ...

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