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

Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner, The Way We Think

Marie-Laure Ryan, Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Mark J. P. Wolf, Building Imaginary Worlds

The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. James M. Robinson

More New Testament Apocrypha, ed. Tony Burke

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.

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