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Nag Hammadi Papyri
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Nag Hammadi Papyri. A collection of 13 papyrus codices found in 1945–6 near Nag Hammadi (the ancient Chenoboskion) in Upper Egypt. Written in
Coptic, they date from between the 3rd and 5th cent. AD and contain over 40 (mainly
Gnostic) works, nearly all previously unknown. The MSS, which are a primary source for our knowledge of Gnosticism, are now all in the Coptic Museum at Cairo. They include the ‘Gospel of Truth’ (see
EVANGELIUM VERITATIS) and the Gospel of
Thomas.
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Nag Hammadi Codex VII
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; BIRGER A. PEARSON (ed.), Nag Hammadi Codex VII (NHS and Manichaean...texts, and the contributors to Nag Hammadi Codex VII should be congratulated...perpetuated many traditions current among Nag Hammadi scholars that one would like to...
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Nag Hammadi Deutsch, 1. Band: NHC I, 1-V,1: Eingeleitet und ubersetzt von Mitgliedern des Berliner Arbeitskreises fur Koptisch-Gnostische Schriften
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Nag Hammadi Deutsch, 1. Band...photographs of the Nag Hammadi codices that...Bibliotheque copte de Nag Hammadi. This was launched...Concordance des textes de Nag Hammadi, which is...Coptic spelling in Nag Hammadi texts was not yet standardized...
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Nag Hammadi Codex VII.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The Coptic Gnostic Library; Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, vol...VII, the best preserved of the Nag Hammadi codices, contains five separate...English translations assembled in the Nag Hammadi Library in English (NHLE). Since...
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The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years: Proceedings of hte 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...McGUIRE (eds.), The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years...the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices. In this volume...The CGL Edition of Nag Hammadi Codex VII...88), surveys four Nag Hammadi texts often cited to support...
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Nag Hammadi bibliography, 1995-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 470 words
; 9789004172401 Nag Hammadi bibliography, 1995-2006. Scholer...2009 256 pages $158.00 Hardcover Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies; v.65 Z7845...cover gnosticism in general, non-Nag Hammadi gnostic texts, gnostic schools and leaders...
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Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Writings
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; MAJELLA FRANZMANN, Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Writings (Edinburgh: T. &...strong plea for the use of the Nag Hammadi writings in the search for the historical...around the figure of Jesus in the Nag Hammadi writings. Understandably, an effort...
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The Teachings of Sylvanus (Nag Hammadi Codex VII, 4): Text, Translation, Commentary.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...present work and to readers of The Nag Hammadi Library in English as "Silvanus...Platonism, Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi texts, and patristic texts). Greek...Concordance des textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VII (Sainte-Foy: Laval...
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Concordance des textes de Nag Hammadi: Le Codex VII.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...concordances for the Laval Coptic Library of Nag Hammadi, this volume is timely and useful...speaking readers of the Coptic Nag Hammadi texts, this is a landmark volume...consult the first edition of The Nag Hammadi Library in English (San Francisco...
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The Apocryphon of John: Synopsis of Nag Hammadi Codices II,1; III,1; and IV,1 with BG 8502,2
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Apocryphon of John: Synopsis of Nag Hammadi Codices 11,1; III,; and IV...composition among the Coptic Nag Hammadi MSS, which include four copies of...most important of the texts from Nag Hammadi, a significant gnostic work with...
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The Gnostic Concept of Authority and the Nag Hammadi Documents
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Gnostic Concept of Authority and the Nag Hammadi Documents (Mellen Biblical Press...primary sources, mainly the Nag Hammadi corpus. F believes that the corpus...explores this theme in a variety of Nag Hammadi texts. Gnostic self-identification...
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Nag Hammadi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nag Hammadi , a town in Egypt near the ancient town...Coptic language was discovered. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, dating from the 4th cent...Scriptures (1987); J. M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1988).
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Nag Hammadi Papyri
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Nag Hammadi Papyri. A collection of 13 papyrus codices found in 1945–6 near Nag Hammadi (the ancient Chenoboskion) in Upper Egypt. Written in Coptic , they...
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Nag Hammadi library
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Nag Hammadi library. A collection of thirteen texts, written on papyrus, found in 1945 buried near Chenoboskion (Nag Hammadi) near the Nile, in Egypt. The books contain fifty-two short tractates...
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Elaine Hiesey Pagels
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was a leading interpreter of the Nag Hammadi gnostic texts and their implications...interested in the implications of the Nag Hammadi gnostic texts for the understanding...that enabled her to study the Nag Hammadi manuscripts at the Coptic Museum...
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Gnosticism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...plurality of available sources, from the Nag Hammadi texts to the writings of those fathers...controversial. Overview The Nag Hammadi texts are dated no earlier than the...Through the contribution of some Nag Hammadi texts, a tradition of sage philosophy...
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