By James M Robinson
"The Coptic Gnostic Library" maintains the place the useless Sea Scrolls left off. Our major resources of knowledge for the Gnostic faith are the so-called Nag Hammadi codices, written in Coptic. those have been unearthed in 1945 close to the city of Nag Hammadi in higher Egypt. The texts actually commence the place the lifeless Sea Scrolls finish. Their discovery is taken into account both major because the lifeless Sea Scrolls themselves, bringing to gentle a long-hidden wealth of data and insights into early Judaism and the roots of Christianity. in addition, those writings sincerely express that the Gnostic faith was once not just a strength that interacted with early Christianity and Judaism of their formative sessions, but in addition an important spiritual stream in its personal correct. "The Coptic Gnostic Library" includes all of the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, either within the unique Coptic and in translation. each one textual content has its personal advent, and whole indexes are supplied. "The Coptic Gnostic Library" is the start line for all learn into historic Gnosticism. it's the results of a long time of committed study by way of the main wonderful foreign students during this box. "The Coptic Gnostic Library" is the one authoritative variation of the various Coptic writings of the Gnostics from the 1st centuries advert. It used to be initially released by means of Brill in fourteen hardback volumes as a part of the Nag Hammadi (and Manichaean) reviews sequence among 1975 and 1995, less than the final editorship of James M. Robinson. Now, for the 1st time, it's on hand in paperback, at a fragment of the cost of the unique hardback variations. - Photomechanical paperback reprint of the unique 14 hardback volumes - entire and unabridged: five volumes, totaling nearly 5.000 pages - dealing with Coptic texts and English translations, Introductions, Notes, and Indexes - merely to be had as a collection
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THE PARAPHRASE OF SHEM: INTRODUCTION M i 'boiiiji n. ” In Colloque International, 328-39. Roberge. ” In NHLE, 339-41. , “A propos de le ‘Paraphrase de Sem,’” Mus 88 (1975) 6996. , ‘The Redeemer Figure in the Paraphrase of Shem,” NovT 12 (1970), 130-40. 'B* eejHe RKd<2 oiroem ne14 e^TTODeK^ncoty R©i ndvAeeire 10 eBo^y. rcD Rtk n^pn Roiaine ^ £ a nKdv^- co)fA RKpMoei 1,1 1,4-6 1,5 1,6 1,7-17 The superscript title is based on the incipit of the tractate (1,2-3). ” The name Shem is spelled consistently chca.
Shem since the one does not clearly presuppose the other. The name is spelled CHCJ\ rather than the expected ch a ( I tih). i II. Literary Genre 6,3 Paraph. Shem is an apocalypse. The tractate has two speakers, the revealer Derdekeas,^ whose revelation makes up the bulk of the tractate, and the recipient of the revelation, Shem, who reports his out-of-thebody experience to his “race,” the intended Gnostic readers. He also speaks in his own right about eschatology and his ascent out of the body through the spheres.
The instances where object and subject appear to have been switched also appear to be due to mistakes involving case endings. ),lii hk THE PARAPHRASE OF SHEM: INTRODUCTION uSpiiit, ^ 'ilStiij,", we. JxV JV — 'v a : , HIllOIfi ]>|3D0I111' ettefe Dijefc Itonn^'^' t&eCf 19 equivalent. Since the original Greek is lost one can in most cases not be sure whether the lack of expected meaning is due to mistranslation or to the Greek text on which the translation was based. The fact that there are a number o f bad translations among the Nag Hammadi tractates makes it likely that incompetent translation is at least partly at fault.