First published in 1978, the nag hammadi library was widely acclaimed by critics and scholars alike. Texts marked with had more than one coptic version extant within the nag hammadi codices. Complete in one volume 2000 free ebook download as pdf file. View nag hammadi library research papers on academia. The nag hammadi library nag hammadi scriptures and the gnostic gospels. The gnostic society library the nag hammadi library. Codex i the jung codex the prayer of the apostle paul. The nag hammadi library gnostic scriptures free ebooks full. This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the nag hammadi library is. It includes the gospel of thomas, the gospel of mary, and the recently discovered gospel of judas. The nag hammadi scriptures, edited by marvin meyer, is the most complete, uptodate, onevolume, english language edition of the renowned library of gnostic manuscripts discovered in egypt in 1945, which rivaled the dead sea scrolls find in significance. The nag hammadi library b i b l i o t h e q u e d e n a g h a m m a d i introduction from the gnostic gospels by elaine pagels in december 1945 an arab peasant made an astonishing archeological discovery in upper egypt.
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Meyer translation mueller cglp translation the apocryphon secret book of james. Containing many of the writings of the gnostics since the time of christ, this was the work that launched modern gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in may ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago. 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. Click download or read online button to get the nag hammadi library in english book now. The site includes the gnostic society library with the complete nag hammadi library and scriptures the gnostic gospels and a large collection of other primary gnostic scriptures and documents. At the time of the publication of the nag hammadi library in english. There is a 17volume english edition, entitled the coptic gnostic library, and full english translations in the nag hammadi library in english.
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