Bentley Layton
Bentley Layton (born August 12, 1941 ) is an American religious scholar .
Life
He earned an AB summa cum laude from Harvard in 1963 and a Ph.D. 1971 at Harvard with Helmut Koester with the dissertation: The Treatise on Resurrection (from the Coptic Gnostic Library): Edition, Translation, and Commentary . He completed a private degree (1970, 1972–1975) in Coptic Studies and Linguistics with Hans Jakob Polotsky in Jerusalem . Since 1983 he has taught as Professor of Religious Studies (Ancient Christianity) and Professor of Languages and Civilizations of the Middle East (Coptic) at Yale University .
Fonts (selection)
- The gnostic treatise on resurrection from Nag Hammadi . Missoula 1979, ISBN 0-89130-341-3 .
- Catalog of Coptic literary manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1906 . London 1987, ISBN 0-7123-0003-1 .
- A Coptic grammar. With chrestomathy and glossary. Sahidic dialect . Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06200-8 .
- The canons of our fathers. Monastic rules of Shenoute . Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-958263-1 .
literature
- David Brakke , Stephen Lewis Emmel and Stephen J. Davis as editors: From gnostics to monastics. Studies in coptic and early christianity in honor of Bentley Layton (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Volume 263). Peeters, Leuven / Paris / Bristol 2017, ISBN 978-90-429-3400-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Layton, Bentley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scholar of religion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1941 |