Form as a Vehicle of Authority? Some remarks on the Apocryphon of James in the Nag Hammadi Corpus

Abstract

As exemplified by the Apocryphon of James, the paper discusses the use of literary genres in the Nag Hammadi Codices with respect to genres of the New Testament.

Keywords

• Coptic literature
• Nag Hammadi Codices
• gnostic writings
• New Testament
• literary authority
• letter
• Apocryphon of James