NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY

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Meaning:

A collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism

Synonyms:

Nag Hammadi; Nag Hammadi Library

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

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