Nag Hammadi: two men digging for topsoil opened a sealed jar, their mother burned some leaves, and a local priest sent the rest to America for study. The video says the texts preserve a priest's 'true words of Jesus' from about AD 70, and that the New Testament was later revised 📖
Nag Hammadi codices: video describes 1948 find of suppressed priest's 'true words of Jesus'
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- A participant described the Nag Hammadi discovery in Egypt: two men digging for topsoil opened a sealed jar, their mother burned some of the manuscripts on a fire, and the remainder was taken to a local priest who sent it to America for examination.
- The video states that the texts were written by a priest around AD 70 in the time of Constantine, claiming to record the true words of Jesus, and that the authorities suppressed them.
- It notes that in one of these manuscripts Jesus teaches the blind man to see rather than curing him, which the presenter treats as evidence of textual distortion.
- The presenter argues that the New Testament text was constantly revised, that Mark originally ends at chapter 14 rather than 21, and that some of Paul's letters are forgeries.
- His broader conclusion is that myths are still being created today, citing the Roswell incident of the late 1940s and subsequent UFO narratives as stories generated within living memory.
Sources
The Nag Hammadi Library & “Gnosticism”: A Short ...theislandparson.com
The texts from Nag Hammadi are leather-bound codices, not scrolls, and as manuscripts they date from the fourth century. They are Christian ...
The Myth of Nag Hammadi's Carbon Dating - Page 4earlywritings.com
Nag Hammadi libraryen.wikipedia.org
Although the manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammadi are generally dated to the 4th century, there is some debate regarding the original composition of the texts.
What Was Discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library?ehrmanblog.org
You mention that the manufacture date of the leather-bound Nag Hammadi books is known from scrap paper “receipts” tucked in the bindings, which were “dated” 341 ...
The Nag Hammadi Codices and Gnostic Christianitybiblicalarchaeology.org
The Nag Hammadi texts were contained in 13 leather-bound volumes discovered by Egyptian farmers in 1945. Dated papyrus scraps used to strengthen the bindings of ...
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