The Nag Hammadi

[ke7ejx]

See my link to Eusebius in post #4 above.

Thanks, Pig.

[JB DoulosChristou]

I'm glad we had this conversation because it made me dig through my pile of books a bit. Marvin Meyer, a scholar of Gnosticism from Chapman University mentioned this about the Gospel of Judas in his book The Gnostic Discoveries:

Is that a direct quote from Meyer? Not sure what he's on about, if so. There's not one "Nag Hammadi Codex" - there's a Nag Hammadi Codex I, Codex II, and so on - but he's clearly referencing the Codex Tchacos, which was found decades later in a different Egyptian location. I can understand why there might be some volume out there with "Nag Hammadi Library" in the title that includes the Gospel of Judas for the sake of surveying more Gnostic literature; but, strictly speaking, there's no sense in which it's accurate to describe it as part of the "Nag Hammadi Library," which is a discrete collection of codices recovered at that specific place in a specific sealed jar, containing a variety of documents of varying degrees of Gnostic content (the specifics of which will, of course, be debated by scholars 'til the cows come home and fall through the hell-portal in the yard.