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The site of discovery, Nag Hammadi in map of Egypt. Scholars first became aware of the Nag Hammadi library in 1946. Making careful inquiries from 1947–1950, Jean Doresse discovered that a local farmer, who was a teenager at the time, dug up the texts from a graveyard in the desert, located near tombs from the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (NHMS; ISSN 0929-2470) is an academic book series on Gnosticism, the Nag Hammadi library, Manichaeism, and related subjects. [1] The series was founded as Nag Hammadi Studies ( NHS ; ISSN 0169-7749 ) in 1971 and is published by Brill . [ 2 ]
Republic by Plato – The original is not Gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with then-current Gnostic concepts. The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth – a Hermetic treatise; The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer; Asclepius 21–29 – another Hermetic treatise; Codex VII: The ...
The only surviving copy comes from the Nag Hammadi library . The text describes three descents using the voice of Barbelo in first person. [2] The voice is the source of life, knowledge, and the first thought. The voice is said to have three names, three masculinities, and three powers, and it is described as androgynous.
The Apocryphon, set in the framing device of a revelation delivered by the resurrected Christ to John the son of Zebedee, contains some of the most extensive detailing of classic dualistic Gnostic mythology that has survived; as one of the principal texts of the Nag Hammadi library, it is an essential text of study for anyone interested in ...
The text was discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 [5] as one of the 51 total treatises transcribed into the 13 codices that make up the Nag Hammadi library. [6] The codices had been buried around 400 AD. [7] The authorship of the original text is estimated to the late second century [3] or early third century. [8]
Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library, page 70, which has the end of the Second Treatise of the Great Seth and the start of the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter. While the text is in Coptic, the title in the center is retained in Greek: άποκάλυψης πέτρου (transl. Apocalypse [of] Peter). [1]