Research & investigation · Texts & cultural history
Jean Doresse
Researcher of the Nag Hammadi discovery accounts
Who they are
Jean Doresse investigated accounts of the Nag Hammadi manuscript find in the late 1940s and around January 1950. Later scholarship compares his inquiries with other versions of the discovery story. His evidence is valuable for reconstructing how the manuscripts entered modern discussion, while remaining an investigation after the reported discovery.
He helps readers distinguish the manuscripts themselves from changing stories about their discovery.
Selected contributions
- Conducted early inquiries into the reported find, documented in Goodacre’s comparison of discovery accounts.Source ↗
Selected reading about this person
Academic paper · 2013
How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?
Mark Goodacre compares accounts of the manuscript find and examines how later retellings developed. His discussion of Doresse’s early inquiries helps distinguish investigation after the fact from eyewitness testimony.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: The author’s paper was inspected. Its bibliography identifies the 1977 English collection and the 1988 third revised edition; those books’ complete contents were not independently inspected for this addition. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass. Reused prior inspected evidence: Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication
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Biography sources
- How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery? ↗Journal for the Study of the New Testament / author-hosted paper