ROBINSON, James M. [Director] [Elaine Pagels].
The Nag Hammadi Library in English.
Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill , 1977.
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First Edition of The Nag Hammadi Library in English; signed by American historian of religion Elaine Pagels
First edition of this collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Elaine Pagels on the half-title page, "Elaine Pagels September 23 2025." Elaine Pagels is an American religious historian and scholar best known for her groundbreaking work on early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her influential book The Gnostic Gospels (1979), which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, reexamines early Christian texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, revealing the theological diversity and gender dynamics suppressed by the formation of orthodox Christianity. Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities and tape markings to the inside jacket flaps and endpapers. Translated into English under the editorship of James M. Robinson. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of thirteen ancient codices discovered in 1945 near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, containing more than fifty early Christian and Gnostic texts written in Coptic. These manuscripts, which include works such as The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Philip, and The Apocryphon of John, have fundamentally reshaped modern scholarship on early Christianity by revealing the theological and philosophical diversity that existed in the second and third centuries CE. Edited and translated into English by James M. Robinson and others, The Nag Hammadi Library made these texts accessible to a broad audience, enabling a reevaluation of the boundaries between orthodoxy and heresy.
The Nag Hammadi Library in English.
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