The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered...

Nag Hammadi (/ˌnɑːɡ həˈmɑːdi/ NAHG hə-MAH-dee; Arabic: نجع حمادى Nagʿ Ḥammādī) is a city and markaz in Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of...

The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out on the eve of 7 January 2010, in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. The massacre...

a renewed interest in Gnosticism after the 1945 discovery of Egypt's Nag Hammadi library, a collection of rare early Christian and Gnostic texts, including...

Pachomian order of monks; the discovery site is not far from Nag Hammadi, where the secreted Nag Hammadi library had been found some years earlier. The manuscripts...

therefore what qualifies as a "Gnostic text." Prior to the discovery at Nag Hammadi, only the following texts were available to students of Gnosticism. Reconstructions...

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Nag Hammadi Codex II (designated by siglum CG II) is a papyrus codex with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts in Coptic (Sahidic dialect). The...

Schenke was one of the first scholars to categorize several texts in the Nag Hammadi library as Sethian. According to John D. Turner, British and French scholarship...

distributions (Acts 6:5). One of the Gnostic codices discovered in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 bears Philip's name in its title, on the bottom line...

are often referred to as "Nag Hammadi bindings", after the 13 codices found in 1945 which exemplify the form. Nag Hammadi bindings were constructed with...

Marcionites, but whom we may believe to have been really Ophites. Of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts that mention the serpent, three appear related to early...

Achamōth (Ἀχαμώθ, Hebrew: חכמה chokmah) and as Prunikos (Προύνικος). In the Nag Hammadi texts, Sophia is the lowest aeon or anthropic emanation of the godhead...

worshippers or Barbēlō gnostics. In the Apocryphon of John, a tractate in the Nag Hammadi Library containing the most extensive recounting of the Sethian creation...

Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi, there are also three treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. Like all documents found in Nag Hammadi, these were translated...

with creation and the end time. It was found among the texts in the Nag Hammadi library, in Codex II and Codex XIII, immediately following the Reality...

is their individual length. The Berlin Codex and Nag Hammadi Codex III are shorter than the Nag Hammadi Codices II and IV. Another point of departure between...

texts of the Nag Hammadi library are often considered separately but the current edition of Schneemelcher also contains eleven Nag Hammadi texts. Books...

Dialogue of the Saviour, a badly damaged Gnostic text discovered in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945. The dialogue consists of a conversation between Jesus...

universe. Among the Archontics, Ophites, Sethians and in the writings of Nag Hammadi library, the archons are rulers, each related to one of seven planets;...

group of early Gnostic Christian documents found at Nag Hammadi in 1945, known as the Nag Hammadi library. The "Berlin Codex" is a single-quire Coptic...

appeared to happen. According to the First Revelation of James in the Nag Hammadi library, Jesus appeared to James after apparently being crucified and...

[scriptures]." Different views on the Tree of life can be found in the Nag Hammadi library codices, writings belonging to Gnosticism. In On the Origin of...

around 15,000 objects. The Coptic Museum also houses a corpus of 1,200 Nag Hammadi manuscripts in a library open to specialist researchers only. Coptic...

sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate the works...

archon with the face of a lion, half flame, and half darkness. In the Nag Hammadi text On the Origin of the World, the three sons of Yaldabaoth are listed...

the Nag Hammadi codices ("NHC"). It exists in two Coptic translations, a Subakhmimic rendition surviving almost in full in the first Nag Hammadi codex...

Pagels' study of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts was the basis for The Gnostic Gospels (1979), a popular introduction to the Nag Hammadi library. It was a best...

James (Secret Book of James), in the Nag Hammadi library Apocryphon of John (Secret Book of John), in the Nag Hammadi library Apocryphon of Ezekiel (Secret...

texts of the Nag Hammadi Library are written. The codex has four parts: The Letter of Peter to Philip, already known from the Nag Hammadi Library The First...