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Nag Hammadi

nag·ham·madi

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a town in Upper Egypt

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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 first-hand knowledge of Gnosticism

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