Bentley Layton

Biographic Data

ID3829504
NAMEBentley Layton
GIVEN NAMESBentley
FAMILY NAMELayton
SIGNATURELAYTON B
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX0

  • The Canons of Our Fathers

    Bentley LaytonBOOKThe Canons of Our Fathers2014

    This book provides a resource for the history of Christian monasticism. It contains the full translation of a newly discovered set of very ancient monastic rules, together with the original text in Coptic. It paints a detailed picture of the way that monks and nuns lived in Christian Egypt in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. The rules are accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character…

  • Some Observations on Shenoute's Sources

    Bentley LaytonARTICLEJournal of Coptic Studies2009

  • A Coptic Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary

    Open AccessBentley LaytonBOOKA Coptic grammar2004

  • A New Coptic Grammar

    Leo Depuydt, Bentley LaytonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

    Bentley Layton's recent book is a full-scale reference grammar of the Coptic language in its most diversely preserved and most studied dialect, Sahidic. In its Coptic stage, Egyptian is no longer written with hieroglyphic signs, but rather with Greek letters supplemented by a small number of characters derived from hieroglyphic writing and used in Sahidic mainly to denote the consonant sounds here transcribed as s (like sh in shoe), f, h, c (orig…

  • Two Unpublished Shenute Fragments Against Kronos

    Bentley LaytonARTICLEJournal of Coptic Studies1992

  • Nag Hammadi Codex II

    G Quispel, Bentley LaytonARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1991

  • Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2-7, Volume One

    Deirdre Good, Bentley Layton et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991

  • The Coptic Determinator Syntagm and its Constituents

    Bentley LaytonARTICLEJournal of Coptic Studies1990

  • The Significance of Basilides in Ancient Christian Thought

    Bentley LaytonARTICLERepresentations1989

    Research Article| October 01 1989 The Significance of Basilides in Ancient Christian Thought Bentley Layton Bentley Layton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 28: 135–151. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928589 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…

  • The Gnostic Scriptures

    G Quispel, Bentley LaytonARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1988

  • The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. Cartonnage

    Bentley Layton, J W B Barns et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1982

  • The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2 vols.)

    Bentley LaytonBOOKThe Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2…1981

  • The Hypostasis of the Archons (Conclusion)

    Open AccessBentley LaytonARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1976

    Several months after the Coptic text had gone to press I had for the first time the opportunity to examine the papyrus under ultraviolet light. From this final collation resulted a few refinements in the text

  • The Hypostasis of the Archons or The Reality of the Rulers

    Open AccessBentley LaytonARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1974

    The Manuscript. This extraordinary tale survives in a single Coptic manuscript from the Gnostic Library of Nag‘Ḥammadi. Acquired by the Coptic Museum of Old Cairo in 1956, the manuscript bears the inventory number 10544 and in current nomenclature is designated codex Cairensis gnosticus II (CG II). In earlier scholarship it was codex I (J. Doresse, Vig. Christ. 3 [1949] 133–134), codex III (H.-Ch. Puech, Coptic Studies...Crum [1950]), and codex X…

  • A Dictionary of Coptic Gnostic Literature

    Open AccessBentley Layton, Thomas O LambdinARTICLENew Testament Studies1971

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  • Communication

    Bentley Layton, Thomas O LambdinARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1971

  • The Sources, Date and Transmission of Didache 1.3b–2.1

    Open AccessBentley LaytonARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1968

    The unsatisfactory quality of the witnesses to the text of the Didache , especially that of Bryennios' codex Hierosolymitanus 54 (a.D. 1056), has been emphasized in a well-known paper by Erik Peterson. This evaluation holds true for Did . 1.3D–2.1, the object of the present study, to an even greater extent than was indicated by Peterson