Hans-Martin Schenke of the Berliner (DDR) Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften is one of the most influential writers on the subject of the Nag Hammadi Corpus and having gone through this text - I have to say, it is amazing how many of his ideas I have considered long before reading this book. It really is worth a read. I love the way it quickly disposes of the whole question of forgery and jumps right into the question of what it all means.
That's probably the reason I haven't bought the Toronto Secret Mark conference book. I despise the whole 'controversy' claim about the discovery. Show me some reason not to believe the authenticity of the text and then we'll talk. I am far more interested in spending my time with a titan in the field who really knows his subject matter. It is truly a wonderful essay.
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."