Nag Hammadi
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Nag Hammadi نجع حمادى | |
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Ceety | |
| Nag Hammadi | |
  Nag Hammadi Location in Egyp | |
| Coordinates:26°03′N32°15′E/ 26.050°N 32.250°E | |
| Kintra |  Egyp |
| Govrenorate | Qena Govrenorate |
| Time zone | UTC+2(EST) |
Nag Hammadi(Arabic:نجع حمادى,IPA:[ˈnæɡʕe ħæmˈmæːdi]), is a ceety inUpper Egyp.Nag Hammadi wis kent asChenoboskion(Greek:Χηνοβόσκιον) inclassical antiquity,meanin "geese grazin grunds". It is locate on the wast bank o theNilein theQena Govrenorate,aboot 80 kilometre north-wast oLuxor.
It haes a population o aboot 30,000, wha is maistly fermers.Succaranaluminiumare producit in Nag Hammadi.
The toun o Nag Hammadi wis established bi Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi, wha wis a member o the Hammadi faimily inSohag,Egyp.Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi wis a major landhaulder in Sohag, an kent for his strang opposition tae the Breetish occupation.
Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi creatit Nag Hammadi for the indigenous fowk frae Sohag wha wis forcit tae abandon thair hameland bi the Breetish occupation. In recognition o this, the new toun wis gien the name "Hammadi".
The Nag Hammadi Library
[eedit|eedit soorce]Nag Hammadi is best kent for bein the steid whaur local fermers foond a sealed earthenware jar containin thirteen leather-bundpapyruscodices,thegither wi pages torn frae anither beuk, in December 1945. The mither o the fermers burned ane o the beuks an pairts o a seicont (includin its civer). Sicweys twal o thir beuks (ane missing its civer) an the loose pages survive.[1]The writins in thir codices, datin back tae the 2nt century AD,[2]comprised 52 maistlyGnostictractates (treatises), believit tae be a leebrar hidden bi monks frae the nearhaun monastery oSt Pachomiuswhan the possession o sic banned writins, denoonced asheresy,wis made an offence.
The contents o theCoptic-bundcodiceswis written inCoptic,tho the wirks wur likely aw translations fraeGreek.Maist famous o thir wirks must be theGospel o Thomas,o which the Nag Hammadi codices contain the amerlie complete copy.
Aw the texts haes been public syne 1975, an is available online.
Nag Hammadi massacre
[eedit|eedit soorce]The ceety wis the steid o theNag Hammadi massacrein Januar 2010, wherein aichtCopticChristianswis shot deid bi threeMuslimmen.[3]Nineteen Coptic Christians wur attacked althegither.[3][4][5]
Notes
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑James M. Robinson (1988).The Nag Hammadi Library.San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.."The Nag Hammadi library consists of twelve books, plus eight leaves removed from a thirteenth book in late antiquity and tucked inside the front cover of the sixth. These eight leaves comprise a complete text, an independent treatise takken out of a book of collected essays." (p.10)
- ↑"nag-hammadi".Archived fraethe originalon 8 Apryle 2007.Retrieved19 November2011.
- ↑abEgypt's anxious Copts 'await next catastrophe'
- ↑http://translate.google /translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2F elfagr.org%2FNewsDetails.aspx%3FnwsId%3D15807%26secid%3D3611&sl=ar&tl=en
- ↑"Egypt church attack kills Copts".BBC News.7 Januar 2010.
Coordinates:26°03′N32°15′E/ 26.050°N 32.250°E
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