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Nag Hammadi Library
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Noun1.Nag Hammadi Library - a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
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She examines marriage and women in First Corinthians, marriage in Colossians and Ephesians, women in the Pastoral Epistles, and marriage and women and feminine imagery in a selection of Nag Hammadi texts.
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