History. The town of Nag Hammadi is named after its founder, Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi, a member of the Hammadi family in Sohag, Egypt.Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi was a major landholder in Sohag, and known for his strong opposition to the British rule in Egypt beginning in 1882.. Nag Hammadi is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of ancient Chenoboskion (Ancient …

The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the "Chenoboskion Manuscripts" and the "Gnostic Gospels") is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman. The writings in these codices …

Die Nag-Hammadi-Schriften (auch als Nag-Hammadi-Bibliothek bekannt) sind eine Sammlung frühchristlicher Texte. Sie wurden im Dezember 1945 in der Nähe des kleinen ägyptischen Ortes Nag Hammadi von ansässigen Bauern gefunden. Die meisten dieser Schriften waren bis dahin gar nicht oder nur fragmentarisch bekannt. Dazu gehört insbesondere das Thomasevangelium.

The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is an extra-canonical sayings gospel.It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library.Scholars speculate that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture.

Het evangelie van Thomas is een van de apocriefe evangeliën.In de Proloog wordt gesteld dat het door Judas Thomas geschreven zou zijn, met wie de apostel Tomas bedoeld wordt.. Het Thomas-evangelie werd in 1945 door twee boeren bij Nag Hammadi gevonden in een kruik, tezamen met een aantal andere koptische geschriften, de meeste met een gnostische inslag. Het Evangelie …

Nag, Iran, a village in Kerman Province; Nag Hammadi, in Upper Egypt; Nag River, in India; Nag Tibba, a mountain in Uttarakhand, India; Religion. Nag Dhunga, a sacred stone worshiped by the people of Nepal; Nag Hammadi library, a collection of Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945 Nag Hammadi Codex II, a collection of early Christian ...

The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. Some of these writings were cited as scripture by early Christians, but since the fifth century a widespread consensus has emerged limiting the New Testament to …

The text, like all the texts in the Nag Hammadi Library, is believed to have originally been written in Greek. As the original Greek text has not been discovered, the only known version is the Coptic translation from Nag Hammadi. Characters. The Parent of …

El tema central de La República es la reflexión sobre qué es la justicia y cómo se expresa en el hombre, lo que lleva a Platón a abordar la organización de la ciudad-estado ideal.. Mientras Sócrates visitaba El Pireo con Glaucón, Polemarco le dice a Sócrates que se una a él para divertirse. Glaucón argumenta que el origen de la justicia está en los contratos sociales y que …

History Ancient Mesopotamia. An early mention of an elixir of life is found in the Epic of Gilgamesh (from the 2nd millennium BC) in which Gilgamesh comes to fear his own declining years following the death of his beloved companion Enkidu. [citation needed] He seeks out Utnapishtim, a Noah-like figure in Mesopotamian mythology in which he was a servant of the …