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In December 1945, a set of 52 religious and
philosophical texts, hidden in an earthenware jar
for 1,600 years, was accidentally unearthed. |
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A example of the codices discovered
in 1945 at the foot of Gebel el Tarif mountain:
most of these codices were protected in a leather
case, such as the one shown here. |
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far from the village of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, a
group of farmers came across an entire collection of
books written in Coptic, the very language spoken
by Egyptian Christians, which came as a bombshell
to the historical and theological communities. |
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corpus of 1,200 pages is currently conserved
at the Coptic Museum in Cairo and contains one text
in particular that made the headlines - the Gospel
according to Thomas, which was originally called
'the secret words of Jesus written by Thomas'. |
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years after the miraculous discovery, the controversy
still rages on, and the analysis of the texts continues
to represent a source of contention. The collection
has spawned several books and essays: from interpretations
with a Rosicrucian bias to accusations of the religious
community being sworn to silence. Scientists
continue to raise questions about the exact repercussions
of such a discovery.
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