Coptic Apocalypse of Paul

The Coptic Apocalypse of Paul is one of the texts of the New Testament apocrypha found in the Nag Hammadi library of Codex V. The text is not to be confused with the Apocalypse of Paul, which is unrelated.[1] Steven A. Armstrong dates the text to 150-170 CE on the basis of its content.[2] Kaler, Painchaud, and Bussieres date the text to the late second or early third centuries.[3] The text was part of a contested claim between Valentinian Gnostics and other groups about who was the true heir of Paul the Apostle.[4]

Editions

• A. Böhlig and P. Labib’s Koptisch-gnostische Apokalypsen aus Codex V von Nag Hammadi im Koptischen Museum zu Alt-Kairo (Halle: Sonderband der Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1963), 15–21
• MacRae, George W.; Murdock, William R., "The Apocalypse of Paul", Coptic Gnostic Library Project, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School
• M. Kaler and J.-M. Rosenstiehl, L’Apocalypse de Paul (NH V,2), Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi, section “Textes” (Quebec/Louvain/Paris: PUL/Peeters, 2005).

References

1. Mills & Bullard 1990, p. 664.
2. Armstrong 2019.
3. Kaler, Painchaud & Bussieres 2004, p. 190.
4. Kaler, Painchaud & Bussieres 2004.

Bibliography

• Armstrong, Steven A. (2019), "Gnostic Coptic Apocalypse of Paul: A Powerful Gnostic Witness" (PDF), Rose+Croix Journal, 13
• Kaler, Michael; Painchaud, Louis; Bussieres, Marie-Pierre (2004). "The Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses 2.30.7, and the Second-Century Battle for Paul's Legacy". Journal of Early Christian Studies. Project Muse. 12 (2): 173–193. doi:10.1353/earl.2004.0024. hdl:20.500.11794/365. ISSN 1086-3184. S2CID 55606637.
• Mills, Watson E.; Bullard, Roger Aubrey (1990). Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780865543737.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• William Murdock, “The Apocalypse of Paul” (PhD diss., Claremont Graduate School, 1968).
• W.-P. Funk, “Koptisch-gnostische Apokalypse des Paulus,” in Neutestamentliche Apokryphen in deutscher Übersetzung, ed. W. Schneemelcher (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1989), 2:628–33
• R. Kasser, “Bibliothèque gnostique VII: L’Apocalypse de Paul,” RTP 19 (1969): 259–63)
• H.-M. Schenke, “Review of Labib-Böhlig,” Orientalische Literaturzeitung 61 (1966): col. 24
• H.-M. Schenke with the Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften, “Die Bedeutung der Texte von Nag Hammadi für die moderne Gnosisforschung,” in Gnosis und Neues Testament, ed. K.-W. Tröger (Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1973), 13–76. H.-J. Klauck’s “Die Himmelfahrt des Paulus (2 Kor 12:2–4) in der koptischen Paulusapokalypse aus Nag Hammadi (NHC V/2),” Studien zum Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt 10 (1985): 151–90
• J. Steven-son, “Ascent Through the Heavens from Egypt to Ireland,” Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 5 (1983): 21–35