Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library Published in French by Pléiade

The complete Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 1,200 pages of Coptic gnostic writings discovered in 1945 in a jar in Upper Egypt, has been published in French by Éditions Pléiade Gallimard. The volume includes translations, introductions, notes, and commentaries by a team of scholars. These texts, previously known only through quotations by Church Fathers, comprise treatises, apocalypses, gospels, prayers, and sacred books. They reflect a blend of Greek mythology, Neoplatonism, Jewish Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Gospel reinterpretations. The writings present a worldview where the world was created by a malevolent usurper rather than a good God. Jacques Henric reviews the publication, noting the texts' poetic and surreal qualities.