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The Origin of the World

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Date: 04 Feb 2014
Publisher: Yale University Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::112 pages
ISBN10: 0300180705
ISBN13: 9780300180701
Dimension: 127x 197x 8mm::159g
Download Link: The Origin of the World
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Original sense in world without end, translating Latin saecula saeculorum, and in worldly. Latin saeculum can mean both "age" and "world," as can Greek aiōn. Meaning "a great quantity or number" is from 1580s. Out of this world "surpassing, marvelous" is from 1928; earlier it meant "dead. On the Origin of the World is a Gnostic work dealing with creation and the end time. It was found among the texts in what is known as the Nag Hammadi library, in Codex II and Codex XIII, immediately following the Reality of the Rulers. There are many parallels between the two texts. On the Origin of the World, trans. Bethge and Layton, from The Nag Hammadi Library. This site includes the entire Nag Hammadi Library, as well as a large collection … Information on On the Origin of the World. Marvin Meyer writes, "On the Origin of the World, the fifth tractate in Nag Hammadi Codex II, is a long and thoughtful essay (97,24-127,17) that addresses questions about the creation of the world, the formation of humankind, and the end of the age.In addition to the complete Codex II version, the text is also known from a short fragment from Nag L'Origine du monde [The Origin of the World] The first owner of The Origin of the World, who probably commissioned it, was the Turkish-Egyptian diplomat Khalil-Bey (1831-1879).A flamboyant figure in Paris Society in the 1860s, he put together an ephemeral but dazzling collection devoted to the celebration of the female body, before he was ruined his gambling debts.

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