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In 1978 Emmel resumed his graduate study, now with Bentley Layton at Yale University, where in 1980 he discovered a part of Nag Hammadi Codex III in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which had acquired the previously unidentified fragment in 1964 among a group of miscellaneous papyri.Stephen Emmel, "A Fragment of Nag Hammadi Codex III in the Beinecke Library: Yale Inv. 1784," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 17 (1980) 53–60. Emmel's first major publication was an edition of the Nag Hammadi text "The Dialogue of the Saviour" (1984). At about that same time, he became the first scholar to see the now famous Gnostic scripture titled "The Gospel of Judas," in what is now called the Codex Tchacos, when it was offered for sale in 1983 in Geneva, Switzerland.Herbert Krosney, The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot (Washington: National Geographic, 2006), chap. 6. However, in the short time allowed, Emmel did not see the title "The Gospel of Judas" in the papyrus manuscript and so was not the first person to identify the text as such.Stephen Emmel, "L 'Évangile de Judas, de la tombe au musée. L'épopée rocambolesque du manuscrit damné," Religions & Histoire 11 (November–December 2006) 24–29 (translated by Vincent Basset). Nevertheless, when the National Geographic Society was considering a project to fund the conservation and publication of the Codex Tchacos in 2004, Emmel was asked to join its "Codex Advisory Panel,"[1] Information about Emmel and the other members of the codex advisory panel at the web site of the National Geographic Society. and he also appeared in the society's much publicized documentary about the Gospel of Judas project."The Gospel of Judas: The Lost Version of Christ's Betrayal," directed by James Barrat for the National Geographic Channel, 2006.
Emmel earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 (department of religious studies, program in the study of ancient Christianity). His doctoral dissertation, "Shenoute's Literary Corpus" (published in 2004), laid the groundwork for his current main research preoccupation, which is an international collaborative project to publish the writings of the ancient Coptic monastic leader Shenoute the Archimandrite (ca. 347–465).[2] Emmel's Team in 2006, and in 2010 (in German). In 1996 Emmel was appointed professor of Coptology at the Institute of Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Münster in Germany.[3] Emmel's page at the web site of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie (in German), and [4] his web page at the university's main research web site (in both German and English). During the academic year 2010–11 he was on leave of absence from the University of Münster in order to serve as the first full-time professor of Coptology at the American University in Cairo.[5] A short article about Emmel at the web site of the American University in Cairo.
In 1976 Emmel became a charter member of the International Association for Coptic Studies, Web site of the International Association for Coptic Studies. whose first international congress (Cairo, December 1976) he helped to organize;James M. Robinson, "The First International Congress of Coptology," Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie copte 23 (1976–78) 281–298; see p. 298. between 1996 and 2000 he served as the association's president, and since 2000 he has been its secretary. Newsletter no. 53 of the International Association for Coptic Studies, with information about its members in 2010; see p. 9. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Coptic Studies (Leuven: Peeters, 1988–2001 with Gerald M. Browne), and he has helped to edit several scientific monograph series.Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (Leiden etc.: Brill, 1997–99 with Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, 2002–8 with Johannes van Oort), Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen Orients (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 1996–present with Johannes den Heijer, Martin Krause, and Andrea B. Schmidt). In 2012, Emmel was appointed "Socio Straniero" ("Foreign member") of the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome).
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