For the Children, Perfect Instruction: Studies in Honour Ofhans-Martin Schenk

2012 Brill hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the cover: INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED NEW TESTAMENT scholar and pioneer researcher in Gnosticism as it became brilliantly illuminated by the publication of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Schenke organized a small group of students and colleagues in 'East Berlin' in the early 1970s to investigate the difficult new primary sources from the 'Coptic Gnostic Library' discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. This group, the 'Berliner Arbeitskreis fur koptisch-gnostische Schriften', published its first results in 1972, and Prof. Schenke and the Arbeitskreis have been at the forefront of Nag Hammadi studies ever since. The present volume is a collection of twenty-seven studies by colleagues, students, and friends of Prof. Schenke in honor of his many contributions to the study of Gnosticism and related religious phenomena in Antiquity, Coptic language and literature, and the New Testament. The book also includes an extensive bibliography of Prof. Schenke's own publications, whose breadth and insightfulness are appropriately mirrored in the variety of contributions to this rich volume. Contents: Introduction by Karen L. King Hans-Martin Schenke – Lehrer, Forscher, Freund by Hans-Gebhard Bethge 'Vertraulich – Verborgen – Verboten – Verraten': Zur Psychologie der Geheimhaltung und der Erforschung 'apokrypher' Schriften by Carsten Colpe Bibliographie Hans-Martin Schenke Nag Hammadi Texts, Gnosticism, Gnosis, Hermeticism 'Einer aus tausend, zwei aus zehntausend': Zitate aus dem Thomasevangelium in den koptischen Manichaica by Wolf-Peter Funk Un parallele grec partiel au Logion 24 de l'Evangile selon Thomas by Paul-Hubert Poirier Gospel of Thomas Logion 114 Revisited by Marvin W. Meyer An Anecdotal Argument for the Independence of the Gospel of Thomas from the Synoptic Gospels by Charles W. Hedrick Le dieu 'semeur' dans le Dialogue du Sauveur (NHC III,5) by Regine Charron Connaitre la difference entre les hommes mauvais et les bons : Le charisme de clairvoyance d'Adam et Eve a Pachome et Theodore by Louis Painchaud et Jennifer Wees Beitrage zur Gleichnisauslegung in der Epistula Jacobi apocrypha (NHC I,2) by Peter Nagel 'Lasst das Himmelreich nicht welken!' Jes 52,16 und EpJac 7,22 by Gerhard Begrich Traces of Aristotelian Thought in the Apocryphon of John by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen Time and History in Sethian Gnosticism by John D. Turner Indirect Textual Evidence for the History of Early Christianity and Gnosticism by Frederik Wisse Wie gnostisch sind die Gnostiker (gewesen)? by Walter Beltz Muhammad, Salman al-Farisi und die islamische Gnosis by Karl-Wolfgang Troger Das Recht des Geschopfs: Wie sind gnostische Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Demiurgen zu beurteilen? by Dankwart Kirchner Hermes und Ptolemaios. Zu einem Silberteller im Getty-Museum by Jens Holzhausen Coptic Language and Literature The Focalizing Conversion: Structural Preliminaries to a Chapter in the Grammar of Oxyrhynchite Coptic by Ariel Shisha-Halevy Le lyco-diospolitain en sa complexite, vestiges regionaux, alters, devenus polymorphes, de la langue vehiculaire pre-copte utilisee en Haute-Egypte ? by Rodolphe Kasser Unbekanntes Berliner Evangelium = the Strasbourg Coptic Gospel: Prolegomena to a New Edition of the Strasbourg Fragments by Stephen Emmel The Munier Enoch Fragments, Revisited by Birger A. Pearson New Testament and Biblical Studies Lukas 17,33parr. – die Geschichte Jesu und ein (damals) bekanntes Sprichwort by Petr Pokorny Was ist das 'Zeichen des Jona'? by Uwe-Karsten Plisch P.Oxy. 655 und Q. Zum Diskussionsbeitrag von Stanley E. Porter by James M. Robinson und Christoph Heil Brian Walton und die Londoner Polyglotte. Ein Beispiel fur die bisweilen schwierigen ausseren Umstande von Editions- und Ubersetzungsprojekten by Ursula Ulrike Kaiser Titel, Uberschriften und Unterschriften der sogenannten Oden und Psalmen Salomos by Michael Lattke.…