What does Nag Hammadi mean?
• NAG HAMMADI (noun) The noun NAG HAMMADI has 2 senses: 1. a town in Upper Egypt 2. a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism Familiarity information: NAG HAMMADI used as a noun is rare.