The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where
the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the
author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had
once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a
bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that
this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the
Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of
the first monastic order was located. The Bodmer Papyri discovery
consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian
monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek
copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in
hiding at the monastery. These treasures were preserved in a jar
hidden in the mountain where monks were buried. This book traces
the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end.
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