Dead Sea Scrolls/Nag Hammadi scrolls info for stillbrooke?

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stillbrooke, in regards to the question you answered about the dead sea scrolls I would like to say please forgive me for getting confused. You are absolutley correct the Dead Sea scrolls are all OT. However there was another find in the caves of Egypt in 1945 called the Nag Hammadi scrolls. Which would be classified as New Testament if they were in the Bible. They are viewed as largley Gnostic gospels which is an early sect of Christians.

The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- 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.
Several of the major texts in the Nag Hammadi collection have more than one English translation; where more than one translation is available, we have listed the translators' names in parenthesis below the name of the text. Texts marked with the {*} had more than one version extant within the Nag Hammadi codices; often these several versions were used conjointly by the translators to provide the single translation presented here.

•The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
•Allogenes
•The Apocalypse of Adam
•The (First) Apocalypse of James
•The (Second) Apo

The Apocalypse of Adam
•The (First) Apocalypse of James
•The (Second) Apocalypse of James
•The Apocalypse of Paul
•The Apocalypse of Peter
•The Apocryphon of James:
o(Williams translation)
o(Cameron translation)
•The Apocryphon of John*
•Asclepius 21-29
•Authoritative Teaching
•The Book of Thomas the Contender
•The Concept of Our Great Power
•The Dialogue of the Savior
•The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
•Eugnostos the Blessed*
•The Exegesis on the Soul
•The Gospel of the Egyptians*
•The Gospel of Philip
•The Gospel of Thomas:
o(Patterson & Meyer translation)
o(Lambdin translation)
o(Patterson & Robinson Translation)
o(Grondin interlinear translation)
•The Gospel of Truth:*
o(Grant translation)
o(Attridge & MacRae translation)
•The Hypostasis of the Archons
•Hypsiphrone
•The Interpretation of Knowledge
•The Letter of Peter to Philip
•Marsanes
•Melchizedek
•On the Anointing
•On the Baptism A
•On the Baptism B

Answer 1

great information anyways...thanks

Answer 2

Nag Hammadi Scrolls

Answer 3

appears like you've been interpreting too a lot Michael Baigent. he's about as a lot of a pupil and "specialist" on the lifeless Sea Scrolls as Dan Brown is. The consensus of the genuine specialists is that the lifeless Sea Scrolls are the artwork of a quasi-Jewish apocalyptic circulate, no longer the writings of Zealot contemporaries of Christ and His apostles. Carbon courting and textual diagnosis factor out that the scrolls are probably from round 335 B.C. And the perception of the Catholic Church 'conspiring' to hide the tips is a collection of bilge. The information entrusted to Roland de Vaux and his crew got here from only one cave -- Cave 4 -- and by using no skill represented the completed team. And the reason that the textile changed into kept secret changed into because there changed into an contract between the countless communities interpreting the scrolls no longer to post some thing till the artwork changed into finished. Conspiracy theories are thrilling, yet do not take them as severe analyze. They seldom, if ever, postpone below careful scrutiny.

Answer 4

The Dead Sea Scrolls are DEAD! That's all!