a new hypothesis about the Nag Hammadi discovery

May 21, 2013 00:49

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-real-reason-the-nag-hammadi-library-was-buried

My two cents: we can't nail down any definite information about the find before the documents arrived in Cairo. Denzey rightfully argues that the ( Read more... )

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randomchris May 21 2013, 06:45:27 UTC
I'm not convinced - the poor grammatical construction and word choice of the sentence "there many occasions of books being buried to accompany the recently-diseased" seems to indicate that the above source may have been assembled by somebody without knowledge of the language in which they were forging the document. :)

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borbor_chan May 21 2013, 18:31:52 UTC
Not quite. Article summarizes (accurately) the finds of a book by a different author who definitely does exist and is a legit early Xnity specialist (who I have known for almost 7 years).

http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1225902308

I am familiar with the book's thesis since I watched its author give a lecture summarizing it in November 2011.

The blogger probably writes English as a second or third language.

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