The Full Publication of the Tchacos Codex
Posted by Kushana Torumekia at 6/10/2007 12:03 AM 
Categories: Nag Hammadi Library, Coptic, The History of the Book
Categories: Nag Hammadi Library, Coptic, The History of the Book
National Geographic Books is publishing for the first time the complete Coptic text, with English and French translations, of Codex Tchacos, the remarkable, 1,700-year-old papyrus manuscript that contains the Gospel of Judas and three other ancient texts.
Read more here.
(It promises to be a lovely book, I recommend looking at the photos. Look for the damage that looks like sandblasting: that was caused by an antiquities dealer freezing the codex.)
-Kushana
Note to self: talk about the new translation The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, the Book of Allogenes (or the Book of the Stranger), the Nag Hammadi Library text Allogenes and how they are and aren't alike, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and Sethian Gnosticism. Talk about what not to do with ancient manuscrupts!
Read more here.
(It promises to be a lovely book, I recommend looking at the photos. Look for the damage that looks like sandblasting: that was caused by an antiquities dealer freezing the codex.)
-Kushana
Note to self: talk about the new translation The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, the Book of Allogenes (or the Book of the Stranger), the Nag Hammadi Library text Allogenes and how they are and aren't alike, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and Sethian Gnosticism. Talk about what not to do with ancient manuscrupts!
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