Jean Doresse
Jean Doresse is a renowned historian and a scholar of Egyptology and Greek papyrology. He was head of the research department at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and for five years undertook expeditions on behalf of the French government, establishing the first archaeological service in Ethiopia. He lives in France.
Books By Jean Doresse
The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Texts
By Jean Doresse
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Hidden for sixteen centuries, the Nag Hammadi library, the most prodigious collection of sacred gnostic texts, was discovered in the late 1940s in Egypt and is considered by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance. Included is the original English translation of the Gospel of Thomas, first published in 1960.