A literal take of the texts suggests that Jesus himself was philosophically far closer to the Greeks and the developing Jewish Gnosticism than to the Jewish authoritarianism of Paul. The texts show a developing scheme of "high philosophy" about the world around, emphasis on the individual, and a new tradition of questioning everything - something unacceptable to the Pauline tradition that depended upon dogma and unquestioning acceptance of authoritative interpretations.
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The texts, along with the inclusion of the Greek works, show how important and fully-developed Gnostic ideas were in early Christianity.
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The papyrus itself is generally dated to the 3 rd or 4 th century CE at the time of burial, though each individual codex has different dates of original composition.
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The Nag Hammadi library (less accurately known as the Gnostic Gospels ) are a collection of Coptic Christian and philosophical writings discovered in 1945 near Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. Please research the article's assertions. This page contains too many unsourced statements and needs to be improved.