Wright praised the group for demanding that scholars and lay people pay closer attention to ancient, nonbiblical Christian texts that have been discovered, like the Nag Hammadi library, found in Egypt in 1945.
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References of this kind are very common in The Upanishads, The Nag Hammadi Library, the Celtic " Book of Taliesin ", as well as early Christian works, the Shinto Kototama, and Shingon Buddhism.
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The James M . Robinson translation was first published in 1977, with the name " The Nag Hammadi Library in English ", in collaboration between E . J . Brill and Harper & Row.
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The text itself is remarkably well preserved for its age; it was reported that the cache of texts called the " Nag Hammadi library ", when originally found, were sealed within a large terracotta vessel.
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The translation of the texts from Coptic, their language of composition, into English and other modern languages took place in the years approaching 1977, when the full Nag Hammadi library was published in English translation.
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Before the discovery of so-called Gnostic texts ( such as the Nag Hammadi library ), scholars had to rely solely on the reports of proto-Nicene church fathers for their understanding of alternative approaches to understanding Christianity.
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John D . Turner, professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska and famed translator and editor of the Nag Hammadi library, stated that the text Plotinus and his students read was Sethian Gnosticism, which predates Christianity.
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The book marked a turning point in the discussion on the subject of Neoplatonism because it took into account the understanding of the gnostics of Plotinus'day in light of the discovery of the " Nag Hammadi library ".
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After briefly studying dance at Martha Graham's studio, she began studying for a Ph . D . in religion at Harvard University as a student of Helmut Koester and part of a team studying the Nag Hammadi library manuscripts.
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The Valentinian system was, until recently, only known through the criticisms of its opponents; however, the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library has given access to Valentinian texts, including sources that have been tentatively identified as written by Valentinus.
