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Bentley
Layton
Department
of Religious Studies
Yale University
451 College Street
P.O. Box 208287
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8287
(203) 432-0828
FAX (203) 432-7844
bentley.layton@yale.edu
Education
1971, Harvard, Ph.D., highest honors. Dissertation: "The
Treatise on Resurrection (from the Coptic Gnostic Library):
Edition, Translation, and Commentary." Director: Helmut
Koester.
1970, 1972—1975, private study of Coptic and linguistics
with H. J. Polotsky, Jerusalem.
1963, Harvard, A.B. summa cum laude.
Employment
record
1983— : Professor of Religious Studies (Ancient Christianity)
and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
(Coptic), Yale University. Affiliated faculty in departments
of Classics and History.
1978—83: Associate Professor, Yale.
1976—78: Assistant Professor, Yale.
1971—76: Visiting Professor (Early Christian Literature),
École biblique et archéologique française,
Jerusalem.
Subjects
taught
History
of Christianity from the origins to Islam especially ecclesiastical
history and literature related graduate seminars tutorials.
Gnostic
religion and literature.
Techniques
of Greek epigraphy (inscriptions on stone).
Coptic
language and theory of syntax.
Critical
edition of texts.
Ancient
manuscript studies.
Ancient
Monasticism.
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Historiography.
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Participation
in research projects
UNESCO Technical Subcommittee for Publication of Nag Hammadi
Codices, Coptic Museum, Cairo. 12/71, 12/72, 9/73,8—10/74,
1/75, 8—9/75, 4/76, 12/76.
Staff, British Library Department of Oriental Manuscripts
and Printed Books, London, to write descriptive catalogue
of holdings in Coptic. Associated research in Oxford, Cambridge,
Manchester, Vatican, Vienna, Paris, Leiden.
Organizer and director, International Conference on Gnosticism
at Yale, March 28—31, 1978.
Member of editorial team to edit the works of the ancient
Coptic author Apa Shenoute; editor of volumes 4 and 5 of
the Canons (in preparation, to appear in CSCO series).
Editing
of journals and series
Committee
of editorial consultants, Harvard Theological Review.
Editorial board, Journal of Coptic Studies.
Series editor, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium,
Series Coptica.
Major
research grants
ACLS Fellowship, 1983.
NEH Research Materials Program project (director, principal
investigator), 1983—85, to develop and write a Coptic
reference grammar.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979—80.
NEH Research and Development Grant, 1977—78, to hold
an international conference at Yale.
NEH Summer Stipend, 1977.
Harvard Society of Fellows. Four-year Junior Fellowship for
interdisciplinary research in Classical philology, Egyptian
linguistics, and ancient history, 1967—71.
Academic
honors, awards
Goff
Chair of Religious Studies, Yale University, 2000—.
President,
New Haven Oriental Club (1986—7).
ACLS Senior Fellowship, 1983.
President, International Association for Coptic Studies,
1980—84.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1979—80.
ACLS Senior Fellowship, 1979—80 (declined).
Vice-president, International Association for Coptic Studies,
1976—80.
American delegate, First International Colloquium on the Future
of Coptic Studies, Cairo 1976, as guest of Egyptian government.
Corresponding member, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity,
1974—.
Oxford, Honorary Member of Senior Common Room, Christ Church
College, 1969.
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1967—71.
Publication prize, Christian Research Foundation (Harvard),
1966.
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1963—71.
Phi Beta Kappa, alpha Massachusetts, 1963.
Detur award (Harvard), 1962.
Harvard National Scholar, 1959—71.
National Merit Scholar, 1959—63.
Publications
Monographs and Books
The Hypostasis of the Archons, Or, The Reality of the
Rulers . . . Newly Edited from the Cairo Manuscript, with
an English Translation, Preface, and Explanatory Notes,
serialized in Harvard Theological Review 67 (1974)
351—425; 69 (1976) 1—71. 146 pp.
The Gnostic Treatise on Resurrection from Nag Hammadi
(Harvard Dissertations in Religion; Missoula, Mont.: Harvard
Theological Review, 1978). 220 pp.
Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British
Library Acquired since the Year 1906 (London: British
Library, 1987). 511 pp. + 32 plates.
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations
(Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1987). 568 pp.
Critical editions of six texts, editorial introduction, editorial
revision of prefaces and translations by other scholars (206
pp.), in The Coptic Gnostic Library:_Nag Hammadi Codex
II (Nag Hammadi Studies 20, 21; 1988) , 2 volumes.
Critical edition of the work "Zostrianos" (98 pp.),
in Bentley Layton, Marvin Meyer, John Sieber, and Frederik
Wisse, The Coptic Gnostic Library: Nag Hammadi Codex VIII
(Leiden: Brill, 1991).
A Coptic Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary: Sahidic
Dialect (Porta Linguarum Orientalium, n.s. 20; Wiesbaden,
Harrassowitz, 2000).
Coptic-Gnostic Chrestomathy: A Selection of Coptic Texts
with Grammatical Analysis and Glossary (Leuven: Peeters,
second edition, revised and expanded, 2004).
Coptic
in 20 Lessons:A Learner’s Grammar with Exercise and
Vocabularies (Leuven:Peeters, to appear 2006).
Books
Edited
The
Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Proceedings of the International
Conference on Gnosticism at Yale (Studies in the History
of Religions 41; Leiden: Brill, 1980, 1981). 2 vols. 912 pp.
Articles
The Sources, Date, and Transmission of Didache 1.2b—3.1,
Harvard Theological Review 61 (1968) 343—383.
A Penthemeros Certificate in Harvard University, Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 6 (1970) 183—185,
Plate IXc.
The Text and Orthography of the Coptic Hypostasis of the Archons,
ibid. 11 (1973) 173—200, Plate IVc.
Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Hypostasis of the
Archons, in Coptic Studies in Honour of Pahor Labib
(Nag Hammadi Studies 5; Leiden: Brill, 1975) 90—109.
The Coptic Language, in Interpreter's Dictionary of the
Bible Supplementary Volume (Nashville: Abingdon, 1976)
174—179, 2 tables, map.
The Hypostasis of the Archons (translation) , in Nag Hammadi
Library in English (ed. James M. Robinson; New York:
Harper & Row, 1977) 152—160.
Editorial Notes on the Expository Tractate Concerning the
Soul from Nag Hammadi, Bulletin of the American Society
of Papyrologists 14 (1977) 65—73.
The Soul as a Dirty Garment, Le Muséon 91
(1978) 155—169.
Compound Prepositions in Sahidic Coptic, in Festschrift
for Hans Jakob Polotsky (ed. D. W. Young; Gloucester:
Pirtle & Polson, 1981) 239—260.
Vision and Revision: A Gnostic View of Resurrection, in Colloque
international sur les textes de Nag Hammadi (Quebec:
Les Presses de l'Université, 1981) 190—217.
The Recovery of Gnosticism: The Philologist's Task in the
Investigation of Nag Hammadi, Second Century: A Journal
of Early Christian Studies 1 (1981) 85—99.
Towards a New Coptic Palaeography, in Acts of the Second
International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome 1980 (Rome:
C.I.M., 1985) , 149—158.
The "Missing" Fragments of a Shenute Homily, Orientalia
52 (1983) 424—5.
The Riddle of the Thunder (NHC VI,2) : The Function of Paradox
in a Gnostic Text from Nag Hammadi, in Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism,
and Early Christianity (C. W. Hedrick, R. Hodgson, eds.;
Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1986) , 37—54.
L'Énigme du Tonnère (Bronte, NHC VI,2) : La
fonction du paradoxe dans un texte gnostique de Nag Hammadi
(trans. by J.-D. Kaestli), Revue de théologie et
de philosophie 119 (1987) 261—280.
The Future of Our Association: Presidential Address, in Coptic
Studies: Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic
Studies (ed. W. Godlewski; Warsaw: PWN, 1990) 15—20.
The Coptic Determinator Syntagm and Its Constituents, Journal
of Coptic Studies 1 (1990) 79—97.
Two Unpublished Shenute Fragments Against Kronos: Layton,
Brit. Lib. Nos. 90 and 91, Journal of Coptic Studies
2 (1992) 117—128, plates 71—74.
Four Years of Progress in Coptic Linguistics, Acts of
the Fifth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Washington,
12—15 August 1992 (Rome: CIM, 1993), vol. 1, 97—110.
A Penultimate Personal Object Morph in Classical Sahidic Coptic,
Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher
Zeit: Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses Münster,
20.—26. Juli 1996, ed. S. Emmel et al. (Wiesbaden:
Reichert, 1999), vol. 2, 347—58.
Social Structure and Food Consumption in an Early Christian
Monastery: The Evidence of Shenoute's Canons and the White
Monastery Federation A.D. 385—465, Le Muséon
115 (2002) 25—55.
Nouvelles
recherches sur la structure de la vie dans le monastère
de Chenouté, Actes de la XIe Journée d'Etudes
coptes, Strasbourg 2003 (in press 2005).
The Monastic
Rules of Shenoute, to appear in The Administration of Monastic
Estates in Late Antiquity.World
Replacements
and Identity Maintenance: Hierarchy, Power and Rules in the
Monastery of Shenoute, to appear in Foundations of Power and
Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism.
Paleographic
Facsimiles
The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices,
ed. James M. Robinson, 10 vols. Published under the auspices
of the Department of Antiquities of the Arabic Republic of
Egypt in conjunction with UNESCO (Leiden: Brill, 1973—78).
As collaborator.
Book
Reviews
Sixteen
book reviews, in Revue Biblique and Journal of
Near Eastern Studies between 1971 and 1987.
Translations
from German
H. Koester, The Theological Aspects of Primitive Christian
Heresy, in The Future of Our Religious Past, Essays in
Honor of Rudolf Bultmann (New York 1971) 65—83.
H.-M. Schenke, The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic
Sethianism, in The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (ed.
B. Layton; Brill: Leiden, 1980) 2. 588—616.
Cartography
A Survey Map of the Cliffs of Hamra Dom (Nag Hammadi), 1975.
With S. Emmel and M. H. Burgoyne.
Travel
Far East (Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand), India, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Europe,
Britain
Languages
French, German, Dutch, Italian, Modern Greek (literary); Greek,
Latin, Coptic; and a limited knowledge of Arabic, Syriac
Administrative
service at Yale
Service as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of
Graduate Studies, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies for
Ancient Christianity, doctoral admissions committee; chaired
search committees for senior positions in History of Religions,
in Islamic Religion, and in New Testament Studies; for junior
position in Ancient Christianity; and various other search
committees and departmental and university committees. Fellow
of Saybrook Residential College, advising students and serving
on college committees.
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