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New York:: Harper & Row, 1977.. 1st U.S. Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: olive green cloth with gilt spine text; the spine text and cloth are faded, otherwise a Very Good book; no dust jacket.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Index of proper names. Dark green endpapers. Description: From the introduction by James M Robinson: ''The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of religious texts that vary widely from each other as to when, where, and by whom they were written. Even the points of view diverge to such an extent that the texts are not to e though of as coming from one group or movement. Yet these diversified materials must have had something in common which caused them to be chosen by those who collected them. The collectors no doubt contributed to t his unit by finding in the texts hidden meanings not fully intended by the original authors. After al, one of t them, the Gospel of Thomas, begins with a word to the wise ''whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience…
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- Title The Nag Hammadi Library in English
- Author James McConkey Robinson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 493
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 1977
- ISBN 9780060669294 / 0060669292
- Library of Congress subjects Gnostic literature, Gnosticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77007853
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.932
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