Kingdom Sayings and Parables of Jesus in the Apocryphon of James: Tradition and Redaction

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Hedrick
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Apocryphal Gospels ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
One Step ◽  
The One

In a recent article Helmut Koester argues against the current practice of distinguishing between canonical Gospels, on the one hand, and apocryphal gospels, on the other, and treating the apocryphal gospels as ‘step children’ of New Testament research. Koester maintains that there are a number of the ‘apocryphal’ gospels which ‘belong to a very early stage in the development of gospel literature — a stage that is comparable to the sources which were used by the gospels of the New Testament.’ One of those texts to which he points is the Nag Hammadi tractate the Apocryphon of James. This paper is an attempt to legitimize one ‘step child’ of New Testament scholarship as a valid source for investigating the earliest levels of the Jesus traditions.

The New Testament in The Nag Hammadi Gospel of Philip

1963 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. McL. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Four Books

The purpose of this paper is to examine, so far as may be done in brief compass, the New Testament echoes and allusions in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip discovered at Nag Hammadi.1 These echoes and allusions are fairly numerous, although not always easy to detect. In some cases, indeed, what appears to one scholar a clear and unmistakable echo may to another seem quite insignificant. To take but two examples, when we read ‘Then the slaves will be free, and the captives delivered’ (133. 28–9 Labib), are we to think of Luke iv. 18? Or Rom. vii. 23? Or of Eph. iv. 8? Does a contrast of slave and son, with a reference to inheritance in the context, of necessity indicate a knowledge of Gal. iv. 7? As it happens, there is other evidence for the author's knowledge of three at least of these four books, and possibly for the fourth.

L'UTILISATION DES PARABOLES DANS L'INTERPRÉTATION DE LA GNOSE (NH XI,1)

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-436
Author(s):  
Louis Painchaud
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Parable Of The Sower ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractOf all the various Nag Hammadi texts that use parables drawn from the New Testament, the Interpretation of Knowledge (NHC XI,1) has attracted the least scholarly attention, no doubt due to the text's extremely lacunous state of conservation. But despite the fact that two thirds of the work have been lost, it is still possible to identify references to the parable of the Sower (IntKnow 5,16-19 ; cf. Mt 13,3b-9 and parallels) and the parable of the Good Samaritan (6,19-23 ; cf. Lk 10,29-35), as well as an amalgamation of allusions to the parable of the Lost Sheep (Mt 18,10-14 and parallels), that of the lamb which must be rescued on the Sabbath (Mt 12,11-12) and the tale of the Good Shepherd ( Jn 10,1-21), at IntKnow 10,20a-38. In this article, the function of this material in the Interpretation of Knowledge will be examined and its use will be situated within the wider context of both gnostic and non-gnostic exegesis in early Christianity.

Pre-Christian Gnosticism in the Nag Hammadi Texts?

1979 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141
Author(s):  
Edwin M. Yamauchi
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
The New Testament

One of the most important and controversial issues in Gnostic studies is the age of Gnosticism. Was it a post-Christian heresy? Was it roughly contemporaneous with the rise of Christianity? Was it Christianity's twin, as someone has called it? Or was it a fully developed movement preceding Christianity and influencing it? Ingeneral, German New Testament scholars, under the influence of Rudolf Bultmann, have assumed a pre-Christian Gnosticism as the basis for their interpretation of the New Testament. Other scholars such as Charles H. Dodd and Robert M. Grant have questioned their heavy reliance upon late Mandaean texts to support such a conviction. With the recovery of the Coptic Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi a number of scholars, most notably James Robinson, have hailed these new materials as evidence for Bultmann's hypothesis:

New Testament Scholarship through One Hundred Years of the Harvard Theological Review

2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 311-322
Author(s):  
Helmut Koester
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Church History ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
Apostolic Fathers

In order to answer the question of the involvement of Harvard Theological Review in the publication of essays relating to the New Testament, I have gone through all the published indices that were issued by the journal. The first index was published in 1938 and covered the journal's first thirty years; thereafter indices were published at ten-year intervals. The figures to which I shall refer in this paper are not necessarily exact, but they offer a reasonably good indication of the commitment of Harvard Theological Review to the field of New Testament studies. I did not limit the following survey to essays that deal with the New Testament proper, narrowly defined. There are numerous articles that contribute to New Testament studies indirectly, as they deal with the literature of postexilic Israel, the so-called Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, or rabbinic Judaism. Other areas of scholarly endeavor relating to the New Testament and early Christianity are the history of ancient Christianity, New Testament apocrypha including the writings from Nag Hammadi, the Apostolic Fathers, early Christian apologists, and ancient church history in general. Finally, many of these essays, often written by New Testament scholars, deal with material from the Greco-Roman world.

Nag Hammadi and the New Testament

1982 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. McL. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Know How ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
The New Testament

Among the materials utilised to reinforce the cover of Codex VII from Nag Hammadi there are three inscribed papyrus fragments containing definite dates: a receipt dated 341 A.D., another of 346, and a deed of surety dated to 348. This provides a clear and unambiguousterminus a quofor the manufacture of this codex, although the fixing of a more precise date remains problematical. We do not know how long a receipt would be retained before it was discarded for use as scrap. As it happens, there is one case among the fragments from the cover of this codex in which the recipient of a letter has used the verso for a letter of his own. Neither however is dated, so that we do not know the interval between them. They therefore provide no help in this respect.

A Comparison of the Parables of The Gospel According to Thomas and of the Synoptinc Gospels

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Montefiore
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Higher Criticism ◽  
The New Testament

However interesting ‘The Gospel According to Thomas’1may be to students of the primitive Church, it seems at first sight highly improbable that this strange farrago of sayings will make any contribution to our knowledge of Jesus' teaching. And yet to the New Testament scholar the Gospel according to Thomas is perhaps the most interesting of all the manuscripts found near Nag Hammadi in 1945, inasmuch as some of its contents have affinities with the sayings and parables of Jesus which are found in the canonical gospels. A comparison of the parables and similitudes found in Thomas with parallel material in the synoptic gospels2raises fascinating and fundamental problems of higher criticism.

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