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Article: Nag Hammadi Codex VII.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- October 1, 1998
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Edited by BIRGER A. PEARSON. The Coptic Gnostic Library; Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, vol. 30. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. xxvi + 479. HF1 198, $127.75.
The year 1995 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the thirteen codices which comprise the Nag Hammadi library. The fifty-two tractates they contain have dramatically altered our understanding of early Christian heterodox communities. In the past five decades, an international team of scholars has endeavored to make this discovery fully accessible to all, a movement spearheaded by James Robinson at Claremont, the driving force behind the Coptic Gnostic Library project.
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Article: Nag Hammadi
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...Nag Hammadi , a town in Egypt near the ancient town ... Coptic language was discovered. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, dating from the 4th cent ... Scriptures (1987); J. M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1988).
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