Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- Late 1950s-1980s (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
1 box (3 folders)
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British New Testament and Gnostics scholar. Born, Gourock 1916. Died, Dundee 2010. Educated, Greenock Academy and Royal High School, Edinburgh. Awarded MA in Classics at Edinburgh University, followed by a degree in divinity with distinction in New Testament. Specialized in the origins of Gnosticism at Cambridge, PhD, 1945. Appointed minister at Strathaven, Lanarkshire, 1946. Lecturer in New Testament Language and Literature, University of St Andrews, 1954. Awarded personal chair, and then the University Chair of Biblical Criticism, 1978. President then secretary of the Society for New Testament Studies. Edited New Testament Studies.
Historia archivística
In the possession of Professor R. McL. Wilson.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Presented by Professor Wilson's son, Mr Andrew Wilson, in July 2010.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Copies, notes, transcripts, photographs, and correspondence relating to the surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic. Continuing the work of P. E. Kahle, see Kahle MSS 2/13 New Testament Faiyumic Texts.
Includes correspondence from:
- Paul Eric Kahle, 1959
- Elinor Husselman (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan), 1959-1961
- Walter Till (Department of Coptic Studies, University of Manchester), 1958-1959
- Theodore Petersen (St Paul’s College, Washington), 1965
- R. Kasser (Professor of Coptic Language and Literature, University of Geneva), 1987
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Kept as received.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Idioma del material
copto
inglés
francés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
English and Coptic. Some correspondence in French.
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descripción
None.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
These are originals.
Existencia y localización de copias
None.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
Not published.