The Nag Hammadi Codices - Full Library - (Gnostic Scriptures)

The Nag Hammadi Codices - Full Library - (Gnostic Scriptures)

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The Nag Hammadi Codices are a group of papyrus manuscripts discovered near the city of Nag Hammadi in southern Egypt, about 70 miles north of Luxor. The codices (i.e., bound volumes) contain writings that shed light on the diverse religious and philosophical currents of the early Christian period.

Reportedly, the discovery was made in 1945 by Egyptian farmers digging for fertile soil at the base of the Jabal al-Tarif cliff on the east bank of the Nile River across from Nag Hammadi. The codices were allegedly found buried in a ceramic storage jar. Both the precise location and circumstances in this chance discovery story are questionable, with some scholars suspecting that the manuscripts come from an illicitly excavated grave (or graves). They are now in the Coptic Museum in Cairo. Source, biblicalarchaeology.org

The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945.

This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures - texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" - scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. The discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi library, completed in the 1970's, has provided impetus to a major re-evaluation of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism.

Several of the major texts in the Nag Hammadi collection have more than one English translation; where more than one translation is available, we have listed the translators' names in parenthesis below the name of the text.

Texts marked with the {*} had more than one version extant within the Nag Hammadi codices; often these several versions were used conjointly by the translators to provide the single translation presented here.

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Alphabetical Index

• Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles,

• The Allogenes

• Apocalypse of Adam,

• The Apocalypse of James,

• The First Apocalypse of James,

• The Second Apocalypse of Paul,

• The Apocalypse of Peter,

• The Apocryphon of James, (Williams translation) (Cameron translation)

• Apocryphon of John *,

• The Asclepius 21-29

• Authoritative Teaching

• Book of Thomas the Contender,

• The Concept of Our Great Power,

• The Dialogue of the Savior,

• The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth,

• The Eugnostos the Blessed *,

• The Exegesis on the Soul,

• The Gospel of the Egyptians *,

• The Gospel of Philip,

• The Gospel of Thomas, (Patterson & Meyer translation) (Lambdin translation) (Patterson & Robinson Translation) (Grondin interlinear translation)

• The Gospel of Truth, :* (Grant translation) (Attridge & MacRae translation)

• Hypostasis of the Archons,

• The Hypsiphrone

• Interpretation of Knowledge,

• The Letter of Peter to Philip,

• The Marsanes

• Melchizedek

• On the Anointing

• On the Baptism A

• On the Baptism B

• On the Eucharist A

• On the Eucharist B

• On the Origin of the World *

• Paraphrase of Shem,

• The Plato, Republic 588A-589B

• Prayer of the Apostle Paul,

• The Prayer of Thanksgiving,

• The Second Treatise of the Great Seth,

• The Sentences of Sextus,

• The Sophia of Jesus Christ,

• The Teachings of Silvanus,

• The Testimony of Truth,

• The Thought of Norea,

• The Three Steles of Seth,

• The Thunder, Perfect Mind,

• The Treatise on the Resurrection,

• The Trimorphic Protennoia

• Tripartite Tractate,

• The Valentinian Exposition,

• A Zostrianos

Codex Index

Codex VII

1. The Paraphrase of Shem (fragmentary, translation not provided here)

2. The Second Treatise of the Great Seth

3. The Apocalypse of Peter

4. The Teachings of Silvanus