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Definition of Nag Hammadi

1. Noun. A town in 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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