Nag Hammadi library
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 in Coptic, of which most are gnostic works translated from Greek. They have titles such as the Gospel of Truth, the Apocalypse of Adam, Gospel of Thomas, and Trimorphic Protennoia.
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