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Gnostic Groups in Egypt
Nag Hammadi, Egypt
 
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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
 
Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
 
Finney, P. Corby.  "Gnosticism and the Origins of Early Christian Art."  In Atti del IX Congresso internazionale di archeologia cristiana: Roma, 21-27 settembre 1975 (Studi di antichità crist. 32; Rome: Pontificio Istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1978) 391-405.
 
Gold, Victor Roland.  "Gnostic Library of Chenoboskion."  Biblical Archaeologist 15:4 (1952) 70-88.
 
--------.  "Gnostic Library of Chenoboskion."  Biblical Archaeologist 41:1 (1978) 32-6.
 
Lewis, Nicola Denzey and Justine Ariel Blount.  "Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices."  Journal of Biblical Literature 133:2 (2014) 399-419.
 
Samuel, A. E.  "How Many Gnostics?"  Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22:1-4 (1985) 297-322.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
The Gnostic Society.  The Gnostic Society Library.  Online, http://www.gnosis.org/library.html.
 
King, Karen L., with contributions by AnneMarie Luijendijk.  "'Jesus Said to Them, "My Wife…"': A New Coptic Gospel Papyrus."  Harvard Theological Review 106:1 (2013) forthcoming.  Online, http://news.hds.harvard.edu/files/King_JesusSaidToThem_draft_0917.pdf, accessed 19 September 2012.
 
Meyer, Marvin, ed.  The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume.  New York: HarperOne, 2009.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Bock, Darrell L.  Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking.  Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson, 2005.
 
Bovon, François.  "Mary Magdalene in the Acts of Philip."  In Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition (ed. F. Stanley Jones; SBL Symposium Series 20; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) 75-89.
 
Brock, Ann Graham.  Mary Magdalene, The First Apostle: The Struggle for Authority, Harvard Theological Studies 51.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.
 
--------.  "Setting the Record Straight—The Politics of Identification. Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother in the Pistis Sophia."  In Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition (ed. F. Stanley Jones; SBL Symposium Series 20; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) 43-52.
 
Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen.  "'The Holy Spirit Is a Double Name': Holy Spirit, Mary, and Sophia in the Gospel of Philip."  In Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (ed. Karen L. King; Studies in Antiquity and Christianity; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988) 211-27.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "Reconstructing 'Real' Women in Gospel Literature: The Case of Mary Magdalene."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 105-128.
 
De Conick, April D.  The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
 
Ehrman, Bart D.  Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 
Frankfurter, David.  "A Historian’s View of the Gospel of Judas."  Near Eastern Archaeology 70:3 (2007) 174-7.
 
Hoffman, Daniel L.  The Status of Women and Gnosticism in Irenaeus and Tertullian.   Lewiston, New York: E. Mellen, 1995.  [Chapter 2, "The Status of Women in Gnosticism" (pp. 23-77), is on Camino : Files]
 
King, Karen L.  What Is Gnosticism?  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
 
--------.  "Why All the Controversy? Mary in the Gospel of Mary."  In Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition (ed. F. Stanley Jones; SBL Symposium Series 20; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) 53-74.
 
King, Karen L., ed.  Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, Studies in Antiquity and Christianity.   Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1988.
 
Koyzis, Nancy Calvert.  "Re-sexualizing the Magdalene: Dan Brown's Misuse of Early Christian Documents in The Da Vinci Code."  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 12 (2006).
 
Lundhaug, Hugo and Lance Jenott.  The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 97.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015.
 
Marjanen, Antti.  "The Mother of Jesus or the Magdalene? The Identity of Mary in the So-Called Gnostic Christian Texts."  In Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition (ed. F. Stanley Jones; SBL Symposium Series 20; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) 31-41.
 
--------.  The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 40.  New York: E. J. Brill, 1996.
 
Markschies, Christoph.  Gnosis: An Introduction.  London: T & T Clark, 2003.
 
Meier, John P. "In the Interim... Part II: Family, Marital Status, and Status as a Layman: 2. Was Jesus Married?" In A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, vol. 1, The Roots of the Problem and the Person (New York: Doubleday, 1991), 332-345, 363-70.
 
Meyer, Marvin.  The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library.   New York: Harper San Francisco, 2005.
 
Pagels, Elaine H.  The Gnostic Gospels.  New York: Random House, 1979.
 
--------.  "The 'Mystery of Marriage' in the Gospel of Philip Revisited."  In The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester (ed. by Birger A. Pearson, with A. Thomas Kraabel, George W. E. Nickelsburg and Norman R. Petersen; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991) 442-54.
 
Pagels, Elaine H. and Karen L. King.  Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity.  New York: Viking, 2007.
 
Pearson, Birger A.  Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
 
--------.  "Did Jesus Marry?"  Bible Review 21:2 (Spring 2005) 32-39, 47.
 
--------.  "Judas Iscariot among the Gnostics: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says."  Biblical Archaeology Review 34:3 (2008) 52-7.
 
Penn, Michael.  "Performing Family: Ritual Kissing and the Construction of Early Christian Kinship."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 10:2 (2002) 151-74.
 
Robinson, James M.  "The Coptic Gnostic Library Today."  New Testament Studies 14 (1968) 356-401.
 
Shoemaker, Stephen J.  "A Case of Mistaken Identity? Naming the Gnostic Mary."  In Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition (ed. F. Stanley Jones; SBL Symposium Series 20; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) 5-30.
 
--------.  "Rethinking the 'Gnostic Mary': Mary of Nazareth and Mary of Magdala in Early Christian Tradition."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 9:4 (2001) 555-95.
 
Williams, Michael A.  "Variety of Gnostic Perspectives on Gender."  In Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (ed. Karen L. King; Studies in Antiquity and Christianity; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000) 2-22.
 
 
The Gospel of Jesus' Wife
 
Primary Text
 
King, Karen L.  "'Jesus Said to Them, "My Wife…"': A New Coptic Gospel Papyrus."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 131-59. Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract
?fromPage=online&aid=9226237
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Azzarelli, Joseph M., John B. Goods and Timothy M. Swager.  "Study of Two Papyrus Fragments with Fourier Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 165.  Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/ displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9226250&jid=
HTR&volumeId=107&issueId=02&aid=9226247
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
Choat, Malcolm.  "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife: A Preliminary Paleographical Assessment."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 160-62.   Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=
online&aid=9226240&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0017816014000145
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
Depuydt, Leo.  "The Alleged Gospel of Jesus’s Wife: Assessment and Evaluation of Authenticity."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 172-89.  Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?
type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9226261&jid=HTR&volumeId=107&issueId=02&aid=9226259
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
Frankfurter, David.  Christianizing Egypt.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017.
 
Goodstein, Laurie.  "Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists Say."  New York Times (10 April 2014).  Online, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/science/scrap-of-papyrus-referring-to-jesus-wife-is-likely-to-be-ancient-scientists-say.html?emc=eta1&_r=0, 10 April 2014.
 
"The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: 2014 Update."  Harvard Divinity School (2014).  Online, http://gospelofjesusswife.hds.harvard.edu.
 
Hodgins, Gregory.  "Accelerated Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Determination of Papyrus Samples."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 166-9.  Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/
action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9226254&jid=HTR&volumeId=107&issueId=02&aid=9226251
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
King, Karen L.  "Response to Leo Depuydt, 'The Alleged Gospel of Jesus’s Wife: Assessment and Evaluation of Authenticity.'"  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 190-93.  Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/
action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9226264&jid=HTR&volumeId=107&issueId=02&aid=9226262
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
O'Leary, Naomi.  "'Gospel of Jesus' Wife' Fragment Is a Fake, Vatican Says."  Reuters (28 September 2012), via Yahoo! News (28 September 2012), online, http://news.yahoo.com/gospel-jesus-wife-fragment-fake-vatican-says-121133725.html;_ylt=A2KJjajTvmhQ9TAAPk3QtDMD, accessed 30 September 2012.
 
Sabar, Ariel.  "The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text about Jesus."   Smithsonian.com (18 September 2012). Online, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Inside-Story-of-the-Controversial-New-Text-About-Jesus-170177076.html, accessed 28 September 2012.
 
Tuross, Noreen.  "Accelerated Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Determination of Papyrus Samples."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 170-171.  Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/
action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9226258&jid=HTR&volumeId=107&issueId=02&aid=9226255
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
Yardley, James T. and Alexis Hagadorn.  "Characterization of the Chemical Nature of the Black Ink in the Manuscript of The Gospel of Jesus's Wife through Micro-Raman Spectroscopy."  Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 162-64.  Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=
online&aid=9226243
, accessed 10 April 2014.
 
Watson, Francis.  "Inventing Jesus' Wife," rev. The Bible and Interpretation: Blog (27 September 2012).  Online, http://bibleinterp.com/articles/wat368023.shtml, accessed 30 September 2012.
 
Wolchover, Natalie.  "Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?"  LiveScience.com (29 September 2012) via Yahoo! News (29 September 2012), online, http://news.yahoo.com/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery-220924823.html, accessed 30 September 2012.
 
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