Nag Hammadi Deutsch, 1. Band: NHC I,1--V,1: Eingeleitet und ubersetzt von Mitgliedern des Berliner Arbeitskreises fur Koptisch-Gnostische Schriften, ed. Hans-Martin Schenke, Hans-Gebhard Bethge, and Ursula Ulrike Kaiser. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xxi + 397. 98.00 [euro]. This impressive volume, containing a German translation of the first half of the Nag Hammadi Codices with introductions and notes, is the best one-volume treatment that has yet appeared in any language, a striking instance of the tenacity of the German scholarly tradition through thick and thin.