Home›Sources›The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International EditionSourcesThe Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International EditionCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-nag-hammadi-scriptures-the-international-edition.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-nag-hammadi-scriptures-the-international-editionCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-nag-hammadi-scriptures-the-internati, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-nag-hammadi-scriptures-the-international-edition}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThis is the standard scholarly one-volume translation of the full Nag Hammadi library of Gnostic texts, with specialist translators providing introductions and annotations for each individual text rather than one editor summarizing the whole corpus secondhand. That text-by-text specialist translation and annotation, checkable against the specific Coptic manuscripts each translator worked from, is the volume's real evidentiary basis. Use it for the content of a specific Nag Hammadi text and its scholarly framing; a translation and reference volume, not an extended historical argument about Gnosticism as a movement, so a claim about Gnosticism's broader historical development needs a dedicated historical study alongside this translation.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (178 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1The standard scholarly one-volume translation of the full Nag Hammadi library of Gnostic texts, with specialist translators providing introductions and annotations for each individual text rather than one editor summarizing the whole corpus secondhand.NotesWell-attestedStandard scholarly one-volume translation of the full Nag Hammadi library of Gnostic texts, with introductions and annotations by specialist translators. Use for the content of a specific Nag Hammadi text and its scholarly framing; a translation and reference volume, not an extended historical argument about Gnosticism as a movement.CitationAuthorWell-attestedMarvin Meyer (ed.)PublisherWell-attestedHarperOnePublication YearWell-attested2007URLWell-attestedhttps://archive.org/details/naghammadiscript0000unse_o3v1Source TypeWell-attestedbookClaims Backed By This Source (178 claims)This source backs 178 claims across the atlas. As facts: 137 well-attested. As cited relationships: 8 holds, 3 connected. Plus 30 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicScriptures & Texts, 76 claims: 64 well-attested, 3 holds, 9 general references.Articles, 43 claims: 36 well-attested, 3 connected, 4 general references.Beliefs & Restrictions, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 general references.Figures, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Subcategories, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.Denominations, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 general references.Doctrines, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.Esoteric Texts, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 general references.Textual Witnesses, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.Alphabet Letters, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Custodians & Museums, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.Languages, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Religions, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested137Alphabet LettersZeta ⲍArticlesA Book Assembled Out of Pieces of Another BookA Book with Half Its Pages MissingA Cross That Walks Out of the Tomb and SpeaksA Fullness Above an Ignorant MakerA Jar at the Foot of the CliffA Repetitive Book with a Long Second LifeA Ritual of Five Seals Named in the Texts ThemselvesAnna in the Garden, the Temple, and the CaveEleven Years of Teaching, and a Wisdom Who Repents Thirteen TimesFive Sacraments, and One That Nobody Can Pin DownFour Copies, Two Lengths, and a Hostile Witness Who Dates ItFrom the Unknowable God Down to a Creator Who Does Not Know BetterNag Hammadi, and a Library in TranslationOne Late Parchment, and a Disputed Claim About What Lies Beneath ItReading Genesis BackwardsSerapion at Rhossus, and a Long Afterlife of BlameSeth as Forefather and as Returning RevealerSophia's Error and the Birth of YaldabaothThe Companion, the Gap in the Page, and What Was Built on ItThe Gnostic textsThe Gospel of Thomas, and Reading Gnostics in Their Own WordsThe Manuscript That Was Already on a Library ShelfThe Nag Hammadi LibraryThe Soul Past the Powers, and the Argument That FollowsThirty Years to Publish, and What It ChangedTwo Feasts, a Thousand Icons, and a Book the Latin West Would Not HaveWhat Was in the Jar, and Why It Was BuriedWho Mary Is, and What the Text Has Been Asked to CarryWritten to Settle a Question About Mary's BodyYaldabaoth in the Apocryphon of JohnBeliefs & RestrictionsA Divine Element Is Trapped in Matter and Wakes Through KnowledgeThe Creator of This World Is a Lesser Power Beneath the True GodDenominationsBasilideansValentinianismDoctrinesThe DemiurgeEsoteric TextsThe Gospel of ThomasFiguresThe Demiurge (Yaldabaoth)LanguagesCopticScriptures & TextsApocryphon of JohnGospel of JudasGospel of MaryGospel of PeterGospel of PhilipGospel of ThomasInfancy Gospel of JamesNag Hammadi LibraryPistis SophiaSourcesThe Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International EditionSubcategoriesGnostic TextsShowing 1 to 50 of 51 entities carrying this claim. NextHolds8Custodians & MuseumsCoptic MuseumDoctrinesThe DemiurgeFiguresThe Demiurge (Yaldabaoth)ReligionsGnosticismScriptures & TextsApocryphon of JohnGospel of PhilipGospel of ThomasConnected3ArticlesA Fullness Above an Ignorant MakerA Ritual of Five Seals Named in the Texts ThemselvesSeth as Forefather and as Returning RevealerGeneral References30Alphabet LettersZeta ⲍArticlesA Fullness Above an Ignorant MakerA Ritual of Five Seals Named in the Texts ThemselvesSalvation as Knowledge Rather Than ForgivenessSeth as Forefather and as Returning RevealerBeliefs & RestrictionsA Divine Element Is Trapped in Matter and Wakes Through KnowledgeSeth Is the Ancestor of a Saved Race and a RevealerThe Creator of This World Is a Lesser Power Beneath the True GodCustodians & MuseumsCoptic MuseumDenominationsBasilideansSethianismValentinianismDoctrinesThe DemiurgeEsoteric TextsThe Gospel of ThomasThe Nag Hammadi LibraryFiguresIrenaeusThe Demiurge (Yaldabaoth)LanguagesCopticReligionsGnosticismScriptures & TextsApocryphon of JohnGospel of JudasGospel of MaryGospel of PeterGospel of PhilipGospel of ThomasInfancy Gospel of JamesNag Hammadi LibraryPistis SophiaSubcategoriesGnostic TextsTextual WitnessesNag Hammadi Codex IIComments (0)No comments yet. 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