| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01693 a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
77007853 |
| 013 ## - PATENT CONTROL INFORMATION |
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| Copyright Date |
1977 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780060669294 |
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0060669292 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Nag Hammadi library in English / |
| Remainder of title |
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| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harper & Row Publishers |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
San Francisco : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1977 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Pages |
493 pages ; |
| Size |
24 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
He Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophic texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians and translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. First published in 1978, this is the revised 1988 edition supported by illuminating introductions to each document. The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known works: the Gospel of Thomas, attributed to Jesus' brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word gnosis is defined as "the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth." This doomed radical sect believed in being here now--withdrawing from the contamination of society and materiality--and that heaven is an internal state, not some place above the clouds. That this collection has resurfaced at this historical juncture is more than likely no coincidence. --P. Randall Cohan --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
| 630 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Language of a work |
English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject |
Apocrypha |
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Bible |
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Gnostic literature. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Item type |
Book |
