What is the meaning of Nag Hammadi?

noun

  • A town in Upper Egypt.
  • 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.
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