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The volume included new translations from the Nag Hammadi Library, together with extracts from the heresiological writers, and other gnostic material. It remains, along with The Nag Hammadi Library in English, one of the more accessible volumes of translations of the Nag Hammadi find. It includes extensive historical introductions to individual ...
Nag Hammadi and Gnosis: Papers Read at the First International Congress of Coptology (Cairo, December 1976) R. McL. Wilson: ISBN 978-90-04-05760-9: 15: 1981: Nag Hammadi: Nag Hammadi Codices IX and X: Birger Pearson: ISBN 978-90-04-06377-8: 16: 1981: Nag Hammadi: Nag Hammadi Codices. Greek and Coptic Papyri from the Cartonnage of the Covers
The text was discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 13 codices. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The codices had been buried around 400 AD. [ 6 ] The writing is a Coptic translation of a Greek original. [ 7 ]
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). [1] The manuscript has survived in nearly perfect condition. The codex is dated to the 4th century. It is the only complete manuscript from antiquity with the text of the Gospel of Thomas. [2]
It was buried with the other Nag Hammadi codices, where it lay until the day of its discovery in 1945. [10] On June 8, 1952 the Coptic Museum received the codex. The text of the codex was edited by Gesine Schenke. [11] It was examined and described by James J. Robinson in 1979. [12]
Prior to the discovery at Nag Hammadi, only the following texts were available to students of Gnosticism.Reconstructions were attempted from the records of the heresiologists, but these were necessarily coloured by the motivation behind the source accounts.
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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").