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phoeton2000

May 6 2008, 01:21 PM

Hi all,

I've just been researching this. Anyone got any links to theories as to what happened to the thirteenth book? Apparently there are twelves complete texts and eight pages from a thirteenth. But I haven't been able to find any info on what the thirteenth might be - if it even exists...

lmbeharry

May 6 2008, 01:29 PM

QUOTE (phoeton2000 @ May 6 2008, 02:21 PM)

Hi all,

I've just been researching this. Anyone got any links to theories as to what happened to the thirteenth book? Apparently there are twelves complete texts and eight pages from a thirteenth. But I haven't been able to find any info on what the thirteenth might be - if it even exists...

Nag Hammadi This is the link I use for gnostic texts. I don't know if this helps or not...
Also, maybe Elaine Pagels may point you in the proper direction. She is an expert on the Gnostic texts.

Nucular

May 6 2008, 04:58 PM

Well, it's a rather obvious link, but it seems to answer your question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_l..._in_Nag_Hammadi

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The so-called "Codex XIII" is in fact not a codex, but rather the text of Trimorphic Protennoia, written on "... eight leaves removed from a thirteenth book in late antiquity and tucked inside the front cover of the sixth." (Robinson, NHLE, p.10) Only a few lines from the beginning of Origin of the World are discernible on the bottom of the eighth leaf.

phoeton2000

May 9 2008, 01:55 PM

QUOTE (Nucular @ May 6 2008, 05:58 PM)

Well, it's a rather obvious link, but it seems to answer your question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_l..._in_Nag_Hammadi

Thanks both.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding that quote from Wiki but to me it still sounds like there was thirteenth book (as opposed to a codex) which the pages which comprise the thirteenth codex were taken from (in late antiquity apparently).
A second reading of Wiki has cleared up one of the questions I was leading to: could Cathar documents have ever made it to Nag Hammadi? Answer seems to be no since Nag Hammadi dates to 3rd or 4th centuries AD and the Cathars came much later than that.

WARRIOR FOR THE LIGHT

May 10 2008, 02:08 AM

http://www.thelostbooks.com/nagham.htm

phoeton2000

May 12 2008, 06:53 PM

QUOTE (WARRIOR FOR THE LIGHT @ May 10 2008, 02:08 AM)

http://www.thelostbooks.com/nagham.htm

Thanks WARRIOR FOR THE LIGHT. Amazing story that the mother of the peasant who found them all burnt them thinking they had no value.
THe thing I'm trying to get to is whether the 13th book was necessarily from the same period as the others or whether it could be older. Looks like it was the same age (1st - 2nd century AD) and that the sacred texts of later Gnostic groups like the Cathars/Weavers could not therefore have found their way to Nag Hammadi.

WARRIOR FOR THE LIGHT

May 12 2008, 09:07 PM

QUOTE (phoeton2000 @ May 12 2008, 02:53 PM)

Thanks WARRIOR FOR THE LIGHT. Amazing story that the mother of the peasant who found them all burnt them thinking they had no value.
THe thing I'm trying to get to is whether the 13th book was necessarily from the same period as the others or whether it could be older. Looks like it was the same age (1st - 2nd century AD) and that the sacred texts of later Gnostic groups like the Cathars/Weavers could not therefore have found their way to Nag Hammadi.

Your very welcome... Its a great opportunity for us all here to learn fom each other....

Possible??? Imagine all the other caves etc or hidden texta yet to be found..... Mind Boggling!

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