Nag Hammadi codices
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- The Nag Hammadi codices are the oldest examples of leather-bound books.
- The thirteen codices contain Coptic translations made around 500 AD of earlier writings dating between 50 AD and 140 AD - contemporaneous with the Gospels.
- The codices were discovered in Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt in December 1945 by an Arab peasant. This area contained 150 caves, some of which had been used as graves sites as early as 2000 B.C.
- Portions of the codices made their way to a museum in Cairo, where eventually a Netherlands antiquarian heard of the discovery.
- The first words ever translated were "These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and which the twin, Judas Thomas, wrote down."
Do the Nag Hammadi codices conflict with canonized Christianity?
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Christian views
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Secular views
The codices have many discordances with the Canon.
- The texts dispute the virgin birth.
- The texts dispute the resurrection of Jesus.
- Resources are needed. Feel free to find and add resources.
