Scriptures of the Gnostic Sect
One of the main reasons I wanted to start this blog was to document and "stack" newspaper articles regarding the Nag Hammadi Library that I've found on Newspapers.com. The Nag Hammadi Library, or NHL , is the source material for most things 20th century and on Gnosticism. So what it is? Let's let an article from The Guardian , June 18, 1949, help us define such a thing. The article wastes no time in introducing us to a young French scholar, M.J. Doresse, and his presentation at The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in Paris, June 17, 1949. The presentation focused on the preliminary findings and translations regarding a 1000-page set of scriptures found in Egypt. The article mentions that the documents were found by a group of fellahin some thirty miles north of Luxor, along the east bank of the Nile. The find was mentioned to have been made in early 1946. So, in case you might not know, what is so special about this set of papers k...