Definition of Nag Hammadi

1. Noun. A town in Upper Egypt.

Generic synonyms: Town
Group relationships: Upper Egypt

2. Noun. A collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nag Hammadi

Nadine Gordimer
Nadir
Naegele's rule
Naegeli syndrome
Naegeli type of monocytic leukaemia
Naegleria gruberi
Naemorhedus
Naemorhedus goral
Nafaanra
Nafcil
Naffziger
Naffziger operation
Naffziger syndrome
Nafpaktos
Nag Hammadi (current term)
Nag Hammadi Library
Naga
Nagaland
Nagano
Nagaraj
Nagari
Nagari script
Nagasaki
Nagavali
Nageia
Nageia nagi
Nagel
Nagel's test
Nagele

Literary usage of Nag Hammadi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Da Vinci Code on Trial: Filtering Fact from Fiction by Stephen Clark (2005)
"The significance of The Nag Hammadi documents lies not so much in what they ... What we learn of it from Nag Hammadi does not contradict what we already ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... on the west bank of the Nile, just below Aswan, and extends northwest to Sohar on the east bank, it extends from Luxor to a point opposite Nag Hammadi. ..."

3. Two Thousand Years with the Word by Chiang H. Ren (2000)
"Discovery of Gnostic text at Nag-Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. United Bible Society established in 1946 with the following goals: o coordination, cooperation, ..."

4. Quran: The Final Testament by Rashad Khalifa (2001)
"[Apocalypse of Peter, VII, 3, 81] from THE Nag Hammadi LIBRARY (Harper & Row, 1977, James M. Robinson, ed, Page 339). The facts that (1) Mr. Schroeder's ..."

5. Wake Up the Lord Is Returning by Alf Droy (2002)
"In December 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, 13 papyri leather bound scrolls or books were discovered preserved in a buried urn. In 1952 the documents were ..."

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