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The blog Past Horizons has a post today which begins by saying \u201cThe texts of the Nag Hammadi codices have commonly\u00a0been\u00a0treated as mere\u00a0witnesses to Gnostic texts in Greek mainly\u00a0from the second and third centuries.\u00a0A new\u00a0research project\u00a0will now challenge this approach by interpreting the Coptic texts of these\u00a0codices\u00a0within\u00a0the context of\u00a0their probable production and use in fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian monasticism.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n

It is a fascinating idea, and it does indeed seem to be true that almost all of the interest in the texts from Nag Hammadi has focused on them as evidence for the earlier history of Gnosticism, and not on the significance of those texts for the Christians who used them in the time in which the manuscripts were copied, read, and buried.\u00a0Hugo Lundhaug of the University of Oslo is the principal investigator\u00a0for the project, and has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant\u00a0to fund\u00a0the research. The project\u2019s title is\u00a0\u201cNew Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n

All those of us with interests in the history of Christianity and\/or of Gnosticism will agree in congratulating the grant recipients and in looking forward to the fruits of their research.<\/p>\n

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