Nag Hammadi, Egypt

Egypt

Nag Hammadi, Egypt shares 54 connections with 522 other places across 11 topics, shaped almost entirely by the 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi library. Religion accounts for the bulk of these connections, linking the city to Gnostic texts on figures such as Yaldabaoth, Samael, and the Cainites. Alexandria and Rome share the most overlapping ties, reflecting early Christianity's geographic spread. Scholar Elaine Pagels studied these manuscripts at Harvard, producing The Gnostic Gospels (1979), a popular introduction to the library.

Adam Kadmon

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Mundi, India | Ginza, Japan

Cainites

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Israel | Hesse

Samuel Ifor Enoch

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: New York City, New York | Swansea, Wales | Carmarthenshire

Silas

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Jerusalem, Israel | Athens, Greece

Samael

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Oxford, England | Rome, Italy | Shimoni, Kenya

Elaine Pagels

Simonians

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Syria | Alexandria, Egypt

Ecclesia Gnostica

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: United States | Los Angeles, California | Australia | Seattle, Washington

Milton C. Moreland

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Tennessee | Kentucky | Rhodes, Greece | Idaho | Boise, Idaho

Ophites

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Rome, Italy | Alexandria, Egypt

New Testament apocrypha

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Oxford, England | Rome, Italy | Jerusalem, Israel | Alexandria, Egypt | Leuven, Belgium

2 Enoch

Connects Nag Hammadi, Egypt to: Paris, France | Moscow, Central | Madrid, Spain | Jerusalem, Israel

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