What is it about?
Next to an extended Introduction, the “Berlin Coptic Book” is a transcription of a Coptic text with its German translation. This fourth century manuscript itself is a translation of a second century Greek text. It was restored from about 3000 papyrus fragments that belong to the Papyrus Collection of the Berlin Egyptian Museum.
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Why is it important?
After the endless task of assembling the fragments into fragmentary leaves, the document can now be identified as a rather early theological treatise that points to a school of thought in the vicinity of Alexandria--from Philo to Plotinus. Therefore it is not only interesting to theologians but also of extreme importance for Patristic scholars.
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This page is a summary of: Das Berliner "Koptische Buch" (P 20915): Eine Wiederhergestellte Fruchristlich-Theologische Abhandlung - By Gesine Schenke Robinson, Religious Studies Review, January 2006, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0922.2006.00036_7.x.
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