Saturday, December 19, 2015

"when Herod had sought for him" - Mysterious Egypt

Tokyo


Mysterious Egypt

The yeast of bread was fist discovered in Egypt though barley and wheat were brought to Egypt from Mesopotamia.

It is also impressive that the Bible depicted the journey to Egypt for both the stories of Abraham and Christ Jesus.  Moses was also half-Egyptian.

Egypt is still mysterious.  Something crucial to Christianity might be waiting in Egypt for its discovery.

The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient books (called "codices") containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary "Gnostic Gospels" – texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" – scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. The discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi library, initially completed in the 1970's, has provided impetus to a major re-evaluation of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism.
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

Nag Hammadi Texts - Index by Codex Location
Codex I (The Jung Codex)
The Prayer of the Apostle Paul
(Meyer translation)
(Mueller CGLP translation)
The Apocryphon (Secret Book) of James
(Meyer and Barnstone translation)
(Williams CGLP translation)
(Cameron translation)
The Gospel of Truth*
(Barnstone & Meyer translation)
(Grant translation)
(Attridge & MacRae CGLP translation)
The Treatise on the Resurrection
(Barnstone translation)
(Peel CGLP translation)
The Tripartite Tractate
(Attridge and Mueller CGPL translation)
Codex II
The Apocryphon (Secret Book) of John* – long version
(Meyer translation)
(Davies translation)
(Waldstein & Wisse - Short Version translation)
(Waldstein & Wisse - Long Version translation)
(Wisse CGLP translation)
See the Aprocryphon of John Collection for more information
The Gospel of Thomas
(Meyer translation)
(Davies translation)
(Lambdin CGLP translation)
(Patterson & Meyer translation)
(Patterson & Robinson translation)
See the Gospel of Thomas Collection for more information
The Gospel of Philip
(Meyer translation)
(Barnstone translation)
(Isenberg CGLP translation)
The Hypostasis of the Archons – The Reality of the Rulers
(Barnstone & Meyer translation)
(Layton CGLP translation)
On the Origin of the World*
(Barnstone & Meyer translation)
(Bethge & Layton CGLP translation)
The Exegesis on the Soul
(Barnstone & Meyer translation)
(Robinson CGLP translation)
The Book of Thomas the Contender
(Turner Annotated translation)
(Turner CGLP translation)

Codex III
The Apocryphon (Secret Book) of John* – short version
(Waldstein & Wisse - Short Version translation)
See the Aprocryphon of John Collection for more information
The Gospel of the Egyptians*
(Bohlig & Wisse CGLP translation)
Eugnostos the Blessed*
(Parrott CGLP translation)
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
(Parrott CGLP translation)
The Dialogue of the Savior
(Emmel CGLP translation)
Codex IV
The Apocryphon (Secret Book) of John* – long version
(Waldstein & Wisse - Long Version translation)
See the Aprocryphon of John Collection for more information
The Gospel of the Egyptians*
(Bohlig & Wisse CGLP translation)
Codex V
Eugnostos the Blessed*
(Parrott CGLP translation)
The Apocalypse (Revelation) of Paul
(MacRae & Murdock CGLP translation)
The (First) Apocalypse (Revelation) of James
(Schoedel CGLP translation)
The (Second) Apocalypse (Revelation) of James
(Hedrick CGLP translation)
The Apocalypse (Revelation) of Adam
(Barnstone translation)
(MacRae CGLP translation)
Codex VI
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
(Parrott & McL.Wilson CGLP translation)
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
(Barnstone translation)
(MacRae CGLP translation)
Authoritative Teaching
(MacRae CGLP translation)
The Concept of Our Great Power
(Wisse CGLP translation)
Plato, Republic 588A-589B
(Brashler CGLP translation)
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
(Meyer translation)
(Brashler, Dirkse & Parrott CGLP translation)
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
(Brashler, Dirkse & Parrott CGLP translation)
Asclepius 21-29
(Brashler, Dirkse & Parrott CGLP translation)
Codex VII
The Paraphrase of Shem
(Barnstone translation)
(Wisse CGLP translation)
The Second Treatise of the Great Seth
(Barnstone translation)
(Bullard & Gibbons CGLP translation)
The Apocalypse (Revelation) of Peter
(Brashler & Bullard CGLP translation)
The Teachings of Silvanus
(Peel & Zandee CGLP translation)
The Three Steles of Seth
(Meyer & Barnstone translation)
(Robinson CGLP translation)
Codex VIII
Zostrianos
(Turner Scholar's translation)
(Sieber CGLP translation)
The Letter of Peter to Philip
(Meyer translation)
(Wisse CGLP translation)
Codex IX
Melchizedek
(Giversen & Pearson CGLP translation)
The Thought of Norea
(Giversen & Pearson CGLP translation)
The Testimony of Truth
(Giversen & Pearson CGLP translation)
Codex X
Marsanes
(Turner Scholar's translation)
(Pearson CGLP translation)
Codex XI
The Interpretation of Knowledge
(Turner CGLP translation)
A Valentinian Exposition
2a. On the Anointing
2b. On the Baptism A
2c. On the Baptism B
2d. On the Eucharist A
2e. On the Eucharist B
Allogenes – The Foreigner
(Turner Annonated translation)
(Turner & Wintermute CGLP translation)
Hypsiphrone
(Turner CGLP translation)
Codex XII
The Sentences of Sextus
(Wisse CGLP translation)
The Gospel of Truth*
(Barnstone & Meyer translation)
(Grant translation)
(Attridge & MacRae CGLP translation)
Fragments (translation not provided here)
Codex XIII
Trimorphic Protennoia – Three Forms of First Thought
(Barnstone translation)
(Turner GCLP translation)
(Turner Annotated translation)
On the Origin of the World*
(Barnstone & Meyer translation)
(Bethge & Layton CGLP translation)
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html

It looks like a real Christian library.  Indeed it is mysterious why Egyptians and the Arabs needed Islam.


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Act 12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.
Act 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.