• Registered: 2005-03-07

Topic: The Nag Hammadi

Is anyone else AMAZED that the copies of the Nag Hammadi at the Copic Museum in Cairo are the ONLY known copies of those books?

Of course, there are parallel verses to the NH in the New Testament and such, but those manuscripts--as far as I know--are the ONLY known copies of those teachings.  It may be that there are other copies buried elsewhere, or held elsewhere by who-knows-who for who knows what reason.

Perhaps this shouldn't amaze me as it does, but it hits me as amazing.  I mean, book-banning and the destroying of books has a long history, but this takes the friggin' cake. 

There is one original copy of this text that we know about.  One.  Uno.  Count with me: 1...

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I am posting in the Conspiracy folder here, but I really have no conspiracy to offer.  I think the fact that there is ONE original copy of the Nag Hammadi pretty much speaks for itself.

In itself it seems to imply two possibilites: (1) due to fate--or, hey, just sloppiness on the part of the Gnostics handling their sacred texts--only one copy of the Nag Hammadi was preserved; (2) somebody or a group of somebodies deliberately wanted the Nag Hammadi gone, out-of-the-picture, and wiped from existence.

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.
  • Registered: 2005-03-07

Re: The Nag Hammadi

Of course the fact that there is only one original copy of the Nag Hammadi is neither here nor there, in this, the digital age of internet and printers and several publishing companies who are printing it as I write this...

But, again, in the 4th century AC--when the manuscripts were supposedly hidden--who knew there would be a world-wide digital medium for transmitting information?

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.
  • Registered: 2005-03-07

Re: The Nag Hammadi

All right, this is my last consecutive post.  (I know--I annoy myself sometimes).

This just went through my head: the Nag Hammadi was discovered in 1945.  If you believe in coincidence, then so what.  But if you don't believe in coincidence, then you might find it interesting that the discovery of the manuscripts happened alongside the end of WW2 (the ebbing of a time of darkness), the invention and deployment of the atomic bomb, and hey, right before Roswell.

You can't change a tiger's stripes,
but you can avoid its teeth.