The Nag Hammadi library (also called the ‘Gnostic Gospels’) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic manuscripts discovered near the Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. It includes 52 Gnostic texts, three Hermetic texts, and part of Plato’s Republic.
Written in Coptic, the best-known text is the Gospel of Thomas. This collection contains the only complete text of Thomas. The Nag Hammadi documents are currently at the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
