James M. Robinson

The Coptic Gnostic Library Today

In the autumn of 1947 Togo Mina, Director of the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, showed to Jean Doresse a Coptic manuscript acquired the previous year, which we today call Codex III. Doresse recognized its gnostic character and its importance, and began inquiries as to whether there were other manuscripts in the same find, a find dated ‘about 1945’. Parts of one other codex—today called Codex I—were located in the possession of a Belgian antiquities dealer Albert Eid. This incomplete codex was subsequently taken out of Egypt and, via America and Benelux, emerged in Zurich, where it was purchased for the Jung Institute by Mr George H. Page and named the Jung Codex. It was presented to Jung as a birthday gift, and is not, as one usually infers from the literature, the possession of the Jung Institute, but rather of the heirs of C. G. Jung. An agreement to return it to Egypt after its publication has been made in principle. The Gospel of Truth (1, 2) has been turned over to the Egyptian Embassy in Berne, and from there wad returned to the Coptic Museum; however, the tractate On the Resurrection (1, 3), though published, ahs not been thus far returned. What is still in Zurich is in the Leu Bank.

Jesus from Easter to Valentinus (Or to the Apostles' Creed)

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The Nag Hammadi Story (2 vols.)

The Nag Hammadi Story is a socio-historical narration of just what went on during the thirty-two years from their discovery late in 1945, via their initial trafficking, and then attempts to monopolize, until finally their publication in 1977.

Commentary: Handling Future Manuscript Discoveries

(This article was excerpted from the William H. Brownlee annual lecture delivered at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity of the Claremont Graduate School on September 19 and is published, herewith, with their permission. The full lecture is published in the Institutes Occasional Paper #23.) he recent publicity surrounding the unpublished fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls has brought about the question as to how future manuscript discoveries should be handled. There was a similar instance of mismanagement in the case of the Nag Hammadi codices, which were discovered in 1945 in Upper Egypt. These manuscripts were not published until the 1970s when, through the intermediary of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it became possible to gain access to the material and publish The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, which ended that monopoly and gave everybody ready access. How should the academic community at large handle the next major manuscript discovery? Such discoveries are bound to take place regularly, as evidenced by the steady stream of major finds from this century: The Manichean Codices of Medinet Madi discovered in 1929; the Chester Beatty Biblical Manuscripts from the 1930s; the Toura

Getting the Nag Hammadi Library into English

How the Nag Hammadi codices passed through various international committees before they were published in English.