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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.
al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad (Arabic: القصر و الصياد) is a village in Nag Hammadi district of Qena Governorate, Egypt.. An early center of Christianity in the Thebaid, Roman Egypt, a site frequented by Desert Fathers from the 3rd century and the site of a monastery from the 4th, it was earlier known as Chenoboskion (Greek Χηνοβόσκιον "geese pasture"), also called Chenoboscium ...
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.
Essays on the Nag Hammadi Texts in Honour of Alexander Böhlig: Martin Krause: ISBN 978-90-04-03535-5: 4: 1975: Nag Hammadi: Nag Hammadi Codices III, 2 and IV, 2: The Gospel of the Egyptians. (The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit). Edited with Translation and Commentary: Alexander Böhlig, Frederik Wisse: ISBN 978-90-04-04226-1: 5: 1975 ...
It is one of the three short texts attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus that were discovered among the Nag Hammadi findings. [1] Insufficient information has survived from the manuscript to reconstruct the original title, and so the modern title has been taken from an expression in the treatise itself. [2]
The Gospel of the Truth (Coptic: ⲡⲉⲩⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲓⲟⲛ ⲛ̄ⲧⲙⲏⲉ, romanized: p-euaggelion n-tmēe [1]) is one of the Gnostic texts from the New Testament apocrypha found in the Nag Hammadi codices ("NHC").
Concept of Our Great Power refers to writing 28 of codex VI of the Nag Hammadi library. The manuscript is dated from within approximately the middle of the fourth century CE. [1] The apocalyptic text focuses on events such as the creation, actions of the Redeemer and the Antichrist, and the last triumph of the highest Power. [2]