1. The Gospels That Didn’t Make the Cut St Timothy’s Episcopal Church Study Brunch Egyptian Discoveries

2. Google Map of Egypt and Environs

3. Location of Major Discoveries (in French)

4. Discoveries at Oxyrhyncus Major regional city from 4 th century B. C. E. to 7 th century C. E. Citizens dumped garbage in the desert west of town British excavation began 1896 and continues to today Huge find of texts (classical literary texts, Christian texts, everyday letters and transactions)

5. Location of Major Discoveries (in French)

6. Discoveries at Nag Hammadi 1945: Farmer Mohammed Ali Samman looking for earth for fertilizer Unearths jar with 12 bound codices Codices contain “Gnostic” Christian texts written in Coptic From nearby monastery when such texts were suppressed in 4 th century

7. Characterization of Nag Hammadi Texts The universe was not created by the highest God Intense speculation about the true nature of divinity and the supracosmic realms Focused on – The soul's eventual break out from the created order and – Patterns of spirituality contributing to this Saw nothing un-Christian in these views

8. Nag Hammadi Surrounding Terrain

9. Nag Hammadi Discovery Cave

10. Nag Hammadi Codices

11. Nag Hammadi Codex II

12. The Gospel of Mary from Oxyrhyncus

13. Chester Beatty Papyrus 1 Corinthians 11:33-12:9