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Hardcover. Zustand: near fine. First edition. Octavo. xix, (1), 162pp. Indices. Text in English with some Greek and some Coptic. Dark forest green cloth lettered in gilt, with publisher's device on front cover. An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamping on title & at bottom of text block, and a library pocket on rear pastedown. The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient books (called "codices") containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. The 13 papyrus books (codices) turned out to contain gospels, apocalypses, prayers, liturgical writings and acts of various apostles, none of which were included in the Bible. It also includes observations and commentaries on topics such as the meaning of existence, the creation of humankind and the nature of salvation. Since their discovery these works have provoked enormous interest amongst scholars and the public alike due to the startling new light they throw on the early Christian movement. The provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices has been a point of contention among scholars ever since they were discovered. A new book strongly supports the hypothesis that they were manufactured and read by Christian monks in the fourth and fifth centuries. (Google) Contents: Preliminary Material /; R. McL. Wilson --; The Demiurge in the Apocryphon of John /; Gilles Quispel --; Anapausis in the Epistula Jacobi Apocrypha /; Jan Helderman --; The Colophon of the Gospel of the Egyptians: Concessus and Macarius of Nag Hammadi /; P. Bellet. O.S.B. --; Report on the Dialogue of the Savior (CG III, 5) /; Elaine Pagels and Helmut Koester --; Die Paraphrase als Form gnostischer Verkündigung /; Barbara Aland --; Un rituel idéal d'intronisation dans trois textes gnostiques de Nag Hammadi /; Maddalena Scopello --; The Letter of Peter to Philip and the New Testament /; G. P. Lutiikhuizen --; La Lettre de Pierre à Philippe: sa structure /; Jacques É. Ménard --; La bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi /; Jacques-É. Ménard --; Koptisch-gnostische Schriften Volumes 2 and 3 /; Hans-Martin Schenke --; On Investigating the Hermetic Documents contained in Nag Hammadi Codex VI. /; Karl-Wolfgang Tröger --; Jacob as an Angel in Gnosticism and Manicheism /; Alexander Böhlig --; Report on the Coptological Work /; Alexander Böhlig --; Un double symbole de foi gnostique dans le Kephalaion un de Médînet Mâdi /; J. Ries --; Egyptian Survivals in the Nag Hammadi Library /; Pahor Labib --; Literarkritische Probleme der Zephanja-Apokalypse /; Bernd Jörg Diebner --; Index /; R. McL. Wilson. (OCLC) Note: this volume has a Concordance with the Plates of the Facsimile Edition Volume 16 of the Brill series, "Nag Hammadi Studies." (NHS).