Hugo Lundhaug, Professor of Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature, joins Karin Kukkonen in conversation about Coptic Apocrypha and their relationship with the canonical Bible. Learn more about the way the “Biblical storyworld” has evolved, how cognitive approaches help us navigate the historical distance to late antiquity, and how all of the above is connected to the universe of Harry Potter.
Hugo's reading recommendations
- David Herman, Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013).
- Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities (New York: Basic Books, 2002).
- Marie-Laure Ryan, Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1991).
- Marie-Laure Ryan & Jan-Noël Thon, eds. Storyworlds Across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology. Frontiers of Narrative (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
- Alice Bell & Marie-Laure Ryan, eds., Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
- Mark J. P. Wolf, Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation (New York: Routledge, 2012).
- James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library in English (Third Revised Edition; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990).
- Tony Burke, ed., New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures: Volume 2 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2020).
Post-production: Bård Ingebrigtsen & Vera Syrovatskaya.
NB: We apologise for the mismatched level of the tracks in the beginning of this episode. The sound is back to normal after 6.24.