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The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi ~ The Meaning of the Nag Hammadi now in paperback opens the with the thrilling adventure story of the discovery of the ancient Papyrii at Nag Hammadi Muhammad Ali the fellahin discovered the sealed jar he feared that it might contain a jinni or spirit but also had heard of hidden treasures in such jars
The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi ~ The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library 30 November 1999 Included in these Gnostic discoveries by Marvin Meyer are several gospels of Jesus’ life that never made it into the modern Christian Bible as well as a treasury of lost and esoteric wisdom
The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi ~ The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library About 600 kilometers south of Cairo and 125 kilometers north of Luxor at the big bend in the Nile River in Upper Egypt lies the city of Nag Hammadi The Nile Valley is particularly scenic there and the cliffs that flank the river loom large and are close to the river giving an impressive definition to the inhabited valley
The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi ~ The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library This book opens the with the story of the discovery of the ancient codices at Nag Hammadi in Egypt Muhammad Ali the fellahin discovered the sealed jar he feared that it might contain a jinni or spirit but also had heard of hidden treasures in such jars
The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi ~ The Gnostic Discoveries is the best available guide to the history and significance of the find at Nag Hammadian amazing archaeological link to the founding of the largest religion in the world Marvin Meyer is one of the foremost scholars on Gnosticism the Nag Hammadi Library and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament
The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi ~ The first part of the book provides an adequate history of the origin discovery and publication of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic writings In the second part of the book Meyer gives a brief analysis of the entire contents of the Nag Hammadi library along with selected quotes from the documents themselves
The Gnostic Discoveries The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library ~ This is nice nontechnical foray into socalled Gnosticism and the history of the discovery and impact of the codices found in the 1940’s in Nag Hammadi Egypt Meyer is a knowledgeable scholar and seems to have a genuine interest in Gnosticism or what he seems to call “gnosticizing writings”
The Nag Hammadi Library Gnosticism Explained ~ The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of early Christian scriptures and a few other miscellaneous texts discovered in the Egyptian desert in the middle of the twentieth century that has forced us to reconsider much of what we thought we knew about early Christianity especially the type of early Christianity known as “Gnosticism” The …
The Nag Hammadi Codices and Gnostic Christianity ~ But when two peasants discovered the Nag Hammadi texts a 13volume library of Coptic texts hidden beneath a large boulder near the town of Nag Hammadi in upper Egypt the world was reintroduced to this longforgotten and muchmaligned branch of early Christian thought Gnostic Christianity
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