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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 ]
A facsimile edition in twelve volumes was published between 1972 and 1977, with subsequent additions in 1979 and 1984 from the publisher Brill Publishers in Leiden, entitled, The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. This made all the texts available for all interested parties to study in some form.
Nag Hammadi library contains a large number of texts (for a complete list see the listing) Three Oxyrhynchus papyri contain portions of the Gospel of Thomas: Oxyrhyncus 1: this is half a leaf of papyrus which contains fragments of logion 26 through 33.
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]
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").
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, also known as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, [1] [2] is a Sethian Gnostic text found in Codices III and IV of the Nag Hammadi library. The text describes the origin of three powers: the Father, the Mother, and the Son, who came forth from the great invisible Spirit.
The text was discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 [7] as one of the 51 total treatises transcribed into the 13 codices that make up the Nag Hammadi library. [8] The codices had been buried around 400 AD. [9] The writing is a Coptic translation of a Greek original. [9]