The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices : Contextualising a Fourth-Century Monastic Community /

The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices : Contextualising a Fourth-Century Monastic Community /

This work tells the story of a community of fourth-century monks living in Egypt. The letters they wrote and received were found within the covers of works that changed our understanding of early religious thought - the Nag Hammadi Codices. This book seeks to contextualise the letters and answer que...

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Main Author: Tutty, Paula (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 107.

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Biblical Studies.
Gnosticism & Manichaeism.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue: Searching for the Footprints
  • 1 Focus and Structure
  • 2 Turning to the Source Material
  • 3 Social Theories and Monks
  • 1 Background to the Letters
  • 1 Turning to the Letters
  • 2 Reviewing the Evidence
  • 3 Identifying Monastic Material-Problems and Solutions
  • 2 Fourth-century monasticism
  • 1 The Development of Monastic Terminology
  • 2 Christians as Individuals
  • 3 Types of Monastic Living
  • 4 Monastic Norms
  • 5 Monks and Deviancy
  • 6 Looking the part
  • 7 The Monks of the Letters
  • 8 Individual Lives
  • 3 The Monastic Landscape
  • 1 Late Antique Egypt-Geography
  • 2 Population Size
  • 3 The Location of the Monastic Community
  • 4 Evidence from the Find Site
  • 5 Internal Clues in the Letters
  • 6 Monasteries and their Material Remains
  • 7 The Local Pachomian Monasteries
  • 8 The Monasteries of the Western Desert
  • 9 Monastic Dwelling Places
  • 10 Pachomian Domestic Arrangements
  • 11 Evidence for Monastic Foodstuffs
  • 12 Jars and Storage
  • 13 Monasteries, Monastics and Books
  • 4 The Early Monastic Economy
  • 1 Monks and their Labours
  • 2 Weaving
  • 3 Property Ownership
  • 4 Gifts from Patrons
  • 5 Medicine and Ritual Texts
  • 6 Creating an Income
  • 7 Agricultural Work
  • 8 Monks as Scribes
  • 9 Monastic Trade and Travel
  • 10 Travels for the Sake of the Monastic Economy
  • 11 Economic Dealings in the Nag Hammadi Letters
  • 5 Egyptian Monasticism and its Social Context
  • 1 Power and Identity in Late Antique Egypt
  • 2 Social Networking in Egypt
  • 3 The World of the Fourth-Century Alopex Family
  • 4 Evidence from Chenoboskia
  • 5 Evidence in the NHC Letters
  • 6 Interconnections and Social Ties
  • 6 Monastic Travels
  • 1 Moving About in the Late Roman Empire
  • 2 Travel to and from the Monastery
  • 3 Monastic Tourism
  • 4 Monks on the move
  • 5 Authorised Travel
  • 6 Moving Away-Travel to the Edges of Egypt and Beyond
  • 7 Movement and Monastic Literature
  • 7 A Monastic Manuscript Culture
  • 1 Literacy in Early Monasteries
  • 2 Material Evidence for Monastic Literacy and Education
  • 3 Classical Education
  • 4 Language Choice in the Letters
  • 5 Codices as Material Artefacts
  • 6 The Books of Fourth- and Fifth-Century Monks
  • 7 Monastic Codices-the Archaeological Evidence
  • 8 Dating Codices
  • 9 Coptic Codices and their Owners
  • 10 Evidence for Book Ownership in the Cartonnage
  • 11 Monastic Book Production
  • Scriptoria
  • 12 Bookbinding
  • 13 Papyrus as a Commodity
  • 14 Scribes of the Nag Hammadi Codices
  • Epilogue: Footprints Uncovered
  • Appendix1: Translations of Monastic and Christian letters from the Cartonnage Material
  • Bibliography
  • Index.