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  What is the Nag Hammadi library?
Nag Hammadi is a town in northern Egypt where, in 1945, a collection of ancient writings were discovered.
The Nag Hammadi library is frequently pointed to as an example of "lost books of the Bible." According to the conspiracy theory, the early Christians tried to destroy these Gnostic writings because they contained secret teachings about Jesus and Christianity.
The Nag Hammadi scrolls include works known as the gospel of Truth, the gospel of Philip, the apocryphon of John, the apocalypse of Adam, and the acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles.
www.gotquestions.org /Nag-Hammadi.html   (377 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Egyptian 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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 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.
www.gnosis.org /naghamm/nhl.html   (1052 words)

  
 Nag Hammâdi - 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 (Greek Χηνοβόσκιον) 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 a member of a large 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
This entire library was carefully sealed in an urn and hidden nearby among the rocks, where it remained undetected for almost 1600 years.
The author of the Thomas Gospel is recorded as Thomas the Apostle, one of the Twelve.
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.
members.tripod.com /~Kuriakon00/nagindex.html   (512 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Livres en anglais: James M. Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi.
The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way.
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.amazon.fr /Nag-Hammadi-Library-English/dp/0060669357   (1187 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Books: Coptic Gnostic Library Project,James McConkey Robinson,Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of religious texts that vary widely from each other as to when, where, and by whom they were written.
The Nag Hammadi library was discovered in the Egyptian desert, near Nag Hammadi, in 1945.
The library was composed of scrolls buried by the Gnostics, who in the fourth century maintained a monastery nearby.
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 Spiritual Library
Lectures provided in the library are from the audio archive of The Gnostic Society in Los Angeles; they are presented in RealAudio format and run about 75 minutes in length.
The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945.
The Nag Hammadi materials in the Gnostic Society Library were completely corrected and re-edited in 1997.
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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.
www.nag-hammadi.com   (247 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi Library - Theopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.
An analysis of the differences between the Gnostic writings and New Testament writings all indicate that it is the Nag Hammadi codices, not the canonical gospels, which have succumbed to a shift away from an early to a later viewpoint.
There is not the slightest sign, in Nag Hammadi any more than in the Dead Sea Scrolls, of Jesus being married to Mary and having a child by her.
www.theopedia.com /Nag_Hammadi_Library   (1074 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library: Books: Marvin Meyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi documents in the 1940s, Gnosticism was considered to be a form of anti-Christian heresy taught by some early church fathers and condemned by others.
But with the unearthing of the Gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi, scholars have a better idea of the scope and direction of Gnostic teaching in the early years of Christianity as told by its adherents.
He also provides an appendix that for the first time offers a quick survey of all the texts of the Nag Hammadi library and the Berlin Gnostic Codex, summarizing the contents of each of the texts and offering select quotations to illustrate their character and style.
www.amazon.ca /Gnostic-Discoveries-Impact-Hammadi-Library/dp/0060821086   (667 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   (3129 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi
Popularized by The Da Vinci Code, Nag Hammadi is a town in the north part of Egypt.
This collection of Christian Gnosticism is often called the Nag Hammadi library.
Early church fathers did not accept the claims of these manuscripts and considered them fraudulent due to the contradictions between the Nag Hammadi library and the inspired books of the Bible.
www.allaboutgod.com /nag-hammadi-faq.htm   (309 words)

  
 The Nag Hammadi Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Some time in December 1945, Muhammad Ali al-Samman was digging for fertiliser at the foot of the Djebel el Tarif, in the region of Nag Hammadi, Southern Egypt.
This is what is known as the Nag Hammadi Library.
Copied down in Coptic and bound together in thirteen leather covered books some time during the 2nd half of the 4th century of the christian era - although the texts themselves are undoubtedly considerably older.
www.iua.upf.es /~psoler/seven/html/nagham.htm   (188 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.
www.geocities.com /rameumptom/bom/naghamm.html   (3129 words)

  
 The Nag Hammadi Library in English
This revised and expanded edition of The Nag Hammadi Library is the only complete, one-volume, modern language version of the reknowned library of fourth-century manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945.
First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library launched modern Gnostic studies and was widely acclaimed by critics and scholars alike.
The article goes on to catalog this impact on the areas of gospel tradition, Johannine scholarship, orthodoxy vs. heresy in the early Church, the religious character of various geographical regions, the history of the canon, the study of Judaism, the study of Gnosticism, and the study of the Coptic language.
www.digento.de /titel/103600.html   (912 words)

  
 Read about the Nag Hammadi Library and the Pistis Sophia, including the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Truth, Gospel of ...
Read about the Nag Hammadi Library and the Pistis Sophia, including the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Truth, Gospel of Phillip and Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library, the Pistis Sophia was the largest source of Gnostic teachings known to the world.
The most well known of the Nag Hammadi texts is the Gospel of Thomas.
www.gnosticweb.com /index.php?PageID=114   (1273 words)

  
 Fragments from an Earthen Jar--James Robinson and the Nag Hammadi Library
Fragments from an Earthen Jar--James Robinson and the Nag Hammadi Library
All 13 books, or codices, of the Nag Hammadi (NAHG Ha-MAH-dee) Library had been put into the public domain with the publication in December of the tenth and final volume of photographs of the papyrus pages and fragments.
The most famous of the Nag Hammadi texts is the Gospel of Thomas -- not the fanciful infancy gospel preserved through the centuries but a collection of 14 sayings attributed to Jesus.
www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1785   (1340 words)

  
 The Nag Hammadi Library
The exact course of events surrounding the books of Nag Hammadi is an extraordinary adventure that was not known until 30 years after their discovery, when Mohammed Ali Samman, credited with finding the books, agreed to give his account of what happened.
His story was written down by scientists who were all too aware of the importance in finding out the circumstances of how the manuscripts came to see the light.
Furthermore, no-one can be sure whether the library found in 1945 is complete or whether there might be an additional book somewhere out there.
www.nag-hammadi.com /history.html   (953 words)

  
 Opus Dei - NEWS - What is the Nag Hammadi library?
● The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of thirteen ancient leather-covered codices containing over fifty texts.
► These were accidentally discovered in an earthenware jar by a group of farmers in upper Egypt in 1945, near Quenoboskion, a village 6 miles from the modern city of Nag Hammadi.
► They are now kept in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, and are described with the acronym NHC (Nag Hammadi Codices).
www.opusdei.us /art.php?p=16116   (637 words)

  
 The Nag Hammadi discovery of manuscripts
In December 1945, two peasants, Muhammed and Khalifah 'Ali of the al-Samman clan were digging for fertiliser at the base of the Jabal al-Tarif cliff, using the saddle-bags of their camels to carry the earth back.
They tethered their camels to a boulder, and came upon a buried jar as they were digging around the base of the boulder.
Robinson also visited Nag Hammadi in the 1960's and 1970's, and tracked down those who found them and wormed out them the story of the find.
www.tertullian.org /rpearse/manuscripts/nag_hammadi.htm   (1484 words)

  
 Nag Hammadi Library Index (expanded)
Robinson, seeks to identify and locate the proper names that occur in the Nag Hammadi library as here published.
A few names cannot be listed alphabetically because of missing letters at the beginning of the names; they are added at the very end of the list, in the order of their appearance within the library.
In these cases the selection provided here is only preliminary, and in some cases the quantity of occurrences has led to a selection even within those that might be considered proper names.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rs/rak/courses/535/Indices/NHLINDEX.htm   (1051 words)

  
 The Nag Hammadi Library
The Nag Hammadi library offers a wealth of evidence of such trends in Gnosticism that claim to contain a secret teaching whilst sometimes drawing inspiration from the Old Testament.
Source Q: this term comes from the German Quelle, meaning source, and refers to the passages common to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, also known as the double tradition.
The library comprises 13 books, known as codices according to the scientific name given to any collection of sheets folded in two and sown together.
www.kronosofia.dk /frames/side/biblioteket/nag.html   (634 words)

  
 intro.html
A continuous interwoven meditation on the Logos, it was scarcely mentioned in antiquity— and until the Nag Hammadi discovery not even a phrase from this noble composition was known to have survived.
Robinson et alia: The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices (Codex I and Codex II), Leiden: E.J. Brill (www.brill.nl), 1977 and 1974 (The Gospel of Truth is in Codex I, Thomas and Philip in Codex II).
The Gospel of Thomas, discovered at Nag Hammadi, has often been thought to contain some authentic material from the ministry of Jesus not otherwise preserved in the canonical Gospels.
www.metalog.org /files/intro.html   (5757 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Translated and Introduced by Members of the Coptic Gnostic Library ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Amazon.de: The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Translated and Introduced by Members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Chri: English Books: James McConkey Robinson
The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Translated and Introduced by Members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Chri (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Although there are different approaches and contradictions, I get the following main message from the Nag Hammadi texts: every individual must find the divine in themselves, in other words, the kingdom of heaven is within.
www.amazon.de /Nag-Hammadi-Library-English-Introduced/dp/9004088563   (2045 words)

  
 Gnostic Society Library: Sources on Gnosticism and Gnosis
Lectures provided in the library are from the audio archives of BC Recordings and The Gnostic Society in Los Angeles; they are presented in RealAudio or MP3 format and run about 75 minutes in length.
Essentially all versions of the Nag Hammadi Library available on the internet have been directly copied from these text provided here in the Gnosis Archive.
Pachomius Library offers a comprehensive collection of early Christian writings with emphasis on sources of the Orthodox Christian tradition.
www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library.html   (1129 words)

  
 The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Fourth Revised Edition
This edition also includes a translation of the Berlin Gnostic Papyrus 8502 (which is not really part of the Nag Hammadi Codices but shares some similarities).
"The Nag Hammadi find ranks with the Dead Sea Scrolls...as the most significant finds of this century for the reevaluation of our knowledge of the religious movements of the Greco-Roman period...including Judaism and the early church.
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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