Professor Marvin Meyer appointed to chair Society of Biblical Literature section

Marvin Meyer,

Ph.D., Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies, Wilkinson College, has been appointed Chair of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the International Society of Biblical Literature. The next meeting of the International Society is scheduled for July 2012, in Amsterdam.

Dr. Meyer has also been contacted by a Dutch composer who will be collaborating with him on a composition featuring the remarkable and revisionist gnostic story of creation, to be performed, with soloist, chorus, and orchestra, in February 2013, as a part of the 
Zaterdagmatinee
concert series at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. The composition will employ Meyer’s translations and interpretations of the Nature of the Rulers, On the Origin of the World, and the Revelation of Adam from the
Nag Hammadi
library.

Meyer recently published an article in honor of a Norwegian colleague, “The ‘Mithras Liturgy’ as Mystery and Magic,” in Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and John D. Turner, eds.,
Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices –
 
Studies for Einar Thomassen at Sixty
 (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 76; Leiden: Brill, 2012). Meyer’s translation of the Gospel of Thomas, revised with a poetic flair, will appear soon in a volume edited by the renowned poet and scholar of comparative literature, Willis Barnstone,
The Poems of Jesus Christ
(New York: Norton, 2012).