The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the "Chenoboskion Manuscripts" and the "Gnostic Gospels") is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts...

Nag Hammadi (/ˌnɑːɡ həˈmɑːdi/ NAHG hə-MAH-dee; Arabic: نجع حمادى Nagʿ Ḥammādī) is a city and markaz in Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of...

The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out on the eve of 7 January 2010, in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. The massacre...

a renewed interest in Gnosticism after the 1945 discovery of Egypt's Nag Hammadi library, a collection of rare early Christian and Gnostic texts, including...

are often referred to as "Nag Hammadi bindings", after the 13 codices found in 1945 which exemplify the form. Nag Hammadi bindings were constructed with...

therefore what qualifies as a "Gnostic text." Prior to the discovery at Nag Hammadi, only the following texts were available to students of Gnosticism. Reconstructions...

Schenke was one of the first scholars to categorize several texts in the Nag Hammadi library as Sethian. According to John D. Turner, British and French scholarship...

distributions (Acts 6:5). One of the Gnostic codices discovered in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 bears Philip's name in its title, on the bottom line...

Marcionites, but whom we may believe to have been really Ophites. Of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts that mention the serpent, three appear related to early...

is their individual length. The Berlin Codex and Nag Hammadi Codex III are shorter than the Nag Hammadi Codices II and IV. Another point of departure between...