The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monastery's Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin

by James M. Robinson

Book Overview

The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0227172787
• ISBN13: 9780227172780
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: James Clarke Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"