Charles W. Hedrick
Charles W. Hedrick | |
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| Born | 1934 (age 91–92) Louisiana, USA |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Mississippi College in Clinton (B.A) Golden Gate Southern Baptist Seminary in Mill Valley, California (Bachelor of Divinity) University of Southern California (M.A ) |
| Alma mater | Claremont Graduate School (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Apocalypse of Adam: A Literary and Source Analysis (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | James M. Robinson Burton Mack Ekkard Muhlenberg George MacRae |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Missouri State University |
| Main interests | Early Christianity, Christian origins, and Gnosticism |
Charles W. Hedrick (born 1934) is an American scholar of early Christianity, Christian origins, and Gnosticism. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2004. He was a member of the international UNESCO team that reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices in Cairo.
His research focuses on study of the parables of Jesus, the Gospel of Thomas, and Coptic Gnostic texts.