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  Nag Hammadi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nag Hammâdi (Arabic نجع حمادي; transliterated: Naj' Hammādi) (26°03′N 32°15′E), is a town in the middle of Egypt, called Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor with some 30,000 citizens.
The town of Nag Hammadi was established by Mahmoud Basha Hammadi, who was the a member of the big and Egyptian family Hammadi in Sohag.
Nag Hammadi is best known for being the site where in December, 1945 thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by local peasants.
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 Nag Hammadi: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nag Hammadi is best known for being the site where in December, 1945 thirteen leather-bound papyrus (Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times) codices (additional info and facts about codices) buried in a sealed jar were found by local peasants.
The codices are believed to be a library, hidden by monks from the nearby monastery of St Pachomius when the possession of such banned writings denounced as heresy (A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion) was made an offense.
The Nag Hammadi codices are housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt (additional info and facts about Cairo, Egypt).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nag_hammadi.htm   (871 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered in the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.
The Nag Hammadi codices are housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth - a Hermetic treatise
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 Encyclopedia: Nag Hammadi
Nag Hammâdi (26°03′ N 32°15′ E) is a town in the middle of Egypt, called Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor with some 30,000 citizens.
The Nag Hammadi library codices remain the primary source of a Gnostic world-view.
The Nag Hammadi Library is available in an English translation and is without doubt the most important collection of source texts for research in Gnosticism.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nag-Hammadi   (886 words)

  
 Institute for Antiquity and Christianity
Nag Hammadi Codices V,2-5 and VI with Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, 1 and 4.
Nag Hammadi Codices III,3-4 and V,1: Papyrus Berolinensis 8502,3 and Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1081: Eugnostos and the Sophia of Jesus Christ.
Robinson, J.M. "The Nag Hammadi Library and the Study of the New Testament." In The New Testament and Gnosis: Essays in Honor of Robert McL.
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 Nag Hammadi Library
The texts discovered at Nag Hammadi available in the Gnostic Society Library are indexed in alphabetical order, and by their location in the original codices.
This leaves a small number of scriptures of the Nag Hammadi Library which may be called "unclassifiable." It also must be kept in mind that the passage of time and translation into languages very different from the original have rendered many of these scriptures abstruse in style.
The most readily comprehensible of the Nag Hammadi scriptures is undoubtedly The Gospel of Thomas, with The Gospel of Philip and the The Gospel of Truth as close seconds in order of easy comprehension.
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 The Nag Hammadi Library
In December 1945, a set of 52 religious and philosophical texts, hidden in an earthenware jar for 1,600 years, was accidentally unearthed.
A example of the codices discovered in 1945 at the foot of Gebel el Tarif mountain: most of these codices were protected in a leather case, such as the one shown here.
Not far from the village of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, a group of farmers came across an entire collection of books written in Coptic, the very language spoken by Egyptian Christians, which came as a bombshell to the historical and theological communities.
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 AllRefer.com - Nag Hammadi (Christianity, General) - Encyclopedia
Nag Hammadi[nAg hA´mAdi] Pronunciation Key, a town in Egypt near the ancient town of Chenoboskion, where, in 1945, a large cache of gnostic texts in the Coptic language was discovered.
The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, dating from the 4th cent.
See E. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (1979); K. Rudolph, Gnosis (1983); B. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures (1987); J. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1988).
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Erickson attempts to convince his listeners that the writers of the Nag Hammadi were the true Christians, (based upon his allegation of their similarity to Mormonism) and that all others had slipped off into apostasy.
However; the Nag Hammadi writings are of "Gnostic" origin which were written during the first to fourth century A.D. The Gnostic heretics did cherish both the Old and New testament Scripture, but re-interpreted them in terms of a mythological Gnostic Redeemer.
The authors of the Nag Hammadi writings taught a form of re- incarnation, and that marriage was evil, because it is of the earth.
www.textfiles.com /occult/MORMONS/morm05.txt   (1682 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Nag Hammadi Library Edited by James M. Robinson This revised, expanded, and updated edition of 'The Nag Hammadi Library' is the only complete, one-volume, modern language version of the renowned library of fourth-century manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945.
First published in 1978, 'The Nag Hammadi Library' launched modern Gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in many ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago.
Acclaimed by scholars and general readers alike, 'The Nag Hammadi Library' is a work of major importance to everyone interested in the evolution of Christianity, the Bible, archaeology, and the story of Western civilization.
www.ancientmanuscripts.com /books/nag_hammadi_library.htm   (172 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi Library
Their suppression as banned documents, and their burial on the cliff at Nag Hammadi, it turns out, were both part of a struggle critical for the formation of early Christianity.
The Nag Hammadi texts, and others like them, which circulated at the beginning of the Christian era, were denounced as heresy by orthodox Christians in the middle of the second century.
Is Irenaeus referring to the same Gospel of Truth discovered at Nag Hammadi' Quispel and his collaborators, who first published the Gospel of Truth, argued that he is; one of their critics maintains that the opening line (which begins "The gospel of truth") is not a title.
www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Christianity/Other_Books/Nag_Hammadi/nag_hammadi_library.htm   (3117 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi Documents (Codex)
Of course, the Nag Hammadi documents were not found in a monastery library in 1945, but rather buried in clay jars in the region of Nag Hammadi about three kilometers from the village of al-Qasr.
As for the New Testament, the Gnostic texts of Nag Hammadi were not included and never even a contender to be included.
While this discussion does not encompass the rather large volume of work in the Nag Hammadi collection, which includes some non-Gnostic works as well, it is available on-line.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/naghammadi.htm   (1909 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi - Destination Guide - Hotel Near   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At NAG HAMMADI (pronounced "Naja Ham maadi "), 40km south of El-Balyana, the Nile sweeps into the " Qena Bend ", and the main road and train tracks transfer from the west bank to the other side of the river.
Nag Hammadi itself is an important agricultural centre with a large cement factory, otherwise only known for its past association with the Gnostic Gospels.
Travellers should beware that, after dark, road traffic to the east bank may be suspended for security reasons; it's hard to know whether this is due to the conflict in Middle Egypt as a whole, or the traditional state of lawlessness in Dishna, across the river.
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The translations and introductions to the Nag Hammadi texts are by members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project, which includes such scholars as Helmut Koester, George McRae, and Elaine Pagels.
Unearthed in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, the texts literally begin where the Dead Sea Scrolls end.
Many of the Nag Hammadi texts were composed in the second century and indirectly give witness to the authority of many of the texts that were in the process of constituting the canonical NT at that time."
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 "Pre-Christian Gnosticism, the New Testament and Nag Hammadi in recent debate" by Edwin M. Yamauchi
The Gospel of Thomas, which is preserved among the Coptic Nag Hammadi texts, and of which Greek fragments were found at Oxyrhynchus, is believed to have been composed c.
Impressed by the great number of 'Jewish' elements such as the use of the Old Testament and midrashic interpretations in the Nag Hammadi texts a number of scholars are now maintaining the thesis of a pre-Christian 'Jewish' Gnosticism, that is, a Gnosticism which somehow developed from within Judaism itself.
J. Robinson, 'The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices', BA, 42 (1979), pp.
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 UNL Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Nag Hammadi Codex XI, 1: The Interpretation of Knowledge: 1,1-21,35: Coptic Text and English Translation, pp.
Nag Hammadi Codex XIII, 1*: Trimorphic Protennoia, 35*, 1-50,24: Introduction, pp.
Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII and XIII: Indices of Coptic, Greek and Proper Names, 467- 551.
www.unl.edu /classics/faculty/turner/turner.htm   (790 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi and LDS Beliefs
The Nag Hammadi library is a group of Gnostic texts found in Egypt.
James M. Robinson wrote: "Two of the texts of the Nag Hammadi library refer to their being stored for safekeeping in a mountain until the end of time.
This comes very close to the idea of Moroni hiding the gold plates up in a hill until the "end of time." Yet, the Nag Hammadi library was not discovered until 100 years after Joseph Smith's death in 1844.
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 Gilmore Girls: Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels - TV.com
Nag Hammadi is a town in Egypt where 52 texts (the Gnostic Gospels) were discovered in 1945.
We don't have trivia for Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels.
Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels
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 The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He is currently Chair of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
She has published several articles in the study of Gnosticism and Nag Hammadi and is currently completing a book on the uses of gender imagery in the Nag Hammadi texts.
She is past Chair and current member of the Steering Committee of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
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 Haverford College Libraries - Information Sources: Smoking
There are two series of critical editions/commentaries on the Nag Hammadi texts.
The individual critical editions in the Nag Hammadi Studies series have also been collected and published as The Coptic Gnostic Library: A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices.
Nag Hammadi Texts and the Bible : A Synopsis and Index.
www.haverford.edu /library/courses/relg222b.html   (617 words)

  
 Holy Spirit Interactive: Apologetica - What are the Nag Hammadi writings?
Discovered in 1945 near the village of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, they are fourth-century papyrus manuscripts that formed part of a gnostic library.
Included in the Nag Hammadi collection are such spurious works as the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Phillip, the Apocalypse of Paul, and the Gospel of Mary.
Scholars were delighted to discover several works whose existence was known in the early centuries of the Church but which were presumed lost.
www.holyspiritinteractive.net /questions/naghammadi.asp   (242 words)

  
 Amazon.de:  The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Revised Edition: English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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The Nag Hammadi collection of ancient sacred writings, including the very helpful introductions, should be included in every copy of the Bible.
Coptic is the Egyptian language written with the Greek alphabet; there are different dialects of Coptic, and the Nag Hammadi library shows at least two.
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 BBC - h2g2 - The Nag Hammadi Codices
The Nag Hammadi codices are easily the second most important discovery of the early Christian era, rivaled only by the Dead Sea Scrolls
They were discovered buried in the sands of the Nag Hammadi region of Upper Egypt in December, 1945, by a pair of Bedouins who were digging up nitrates with which to fertilize their fields.
They suffered extensive damage as they were separated, traded, sold, and in the case of one codex, burned, by Bedouins who didn't know their value.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/brunel/A291674   (781 words)

  
 Anne McGuire
Nag Hammadi library, discovered in Egypt in 1945.
I recently co-edited a volume of papers presented at Haverford College and at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Philadelphia to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library.
This volume is published under the title: The Nag Hammadi Library After Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration.
www.haverford.edu /relg/faculty/amcguire/home.html   (380 words)

  
 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Nag Hammadi Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of sacred texts that were discovered by Mohammed Ali Samman in 1945 in the small village of Nag Hammâdi (Chenoboskion in classical antiquity) in central Egypt.
The thirteen codices, with fifty-two texts, were found buried in a sealed jar.
The Gospel of Thomas from the Nag Hammadi Library
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 Nag Hammadi
The Gospel of Truth was composed in about 150 A.D. by Valentine, the famous Saint of Alexandria (born ?100 A.D.).
A continuous interwoven meditation on the Logos, it was widely known in antiquity--but until the Nag Hammadi discovery no copy of this remarkable document was known to be extant.
The translations themselves are both as literal and as lyrical as I could make them.
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