Gospel Of Mary Magdalene FREE

The Gospel of Mary is found in the Berlin Gnostic Codex (or Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, as this ancient collection of Gnostic texts is labeled for archival reasons). This very important and well-preserved codex was apparently discovered in the late-nineteenth century somewhere near Akhmim in upper Egypt. It was purchased in 1896 by a German scholar, Dr. Carl Reinhardt, in Cairo and then taken to Berlin.

The book (or "codex", as these ancient books are called) was probably copied and bound in the late fourth or early fifth century. It contains Coptic translations of three very important early Christian Gnostic texts: the Gospel of Mary, the Apocryphon of John, and the Sophia of Jesus Christ. The texts themselves date to the second century and were originally authored in Greek. (In academic writing over the last century, this codex is variably and confusingly referenced by scholars as the "Berlin Gnostic Codex", the "Akhmim Codex", PB 8502, and BG 8502).

Despite the importance of the discovery of this ancient collection of Gnostic scriptures, several misfortunes including two world wars delayed its publication until 1955. By then the large Nag Hammadi collection of ancient Gnostic writings had also been recovered. It was found that copies of two of the texts in this codex -- the Apocryphon of John, and the Sophia of Jesus Christ -- had also been preserved in the Nag Hammadi collection. The texts from the Berlin Gnostic Codex were used to aid and augment translations of the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ as they now are published in Nag Hammadi Library.

But more importantly, the codex preserves the most complete surviving fragment of the Gospel of Mary (as the text is named in the manuscript, though it is clear this named Mary is the person we call Mary of Magdala). Two other small fragments of the Gospel of Mary from separate Greek editions were later unearthed in archaeological excavations at Oxyrhynchus in lower Egypt. (Fragments of the Gospel of Thomas were also found at this ancient site; see the Oxyrhynchus and Gospel of Thomas page for more information about Oxyrhynchus.) Finding three fragments of a text of this antiquity is extremely unusual, and it is thus evidenced that the Gospel of Mary was well distributed in early Christian times and existed in both an original Greek and a Coptic language translation.

Unfortunately the surviving manuscript of the Gospel of Mary is missing pages 1 to 6 and pages 11 to 14 -- pages that included sections of the text up to chapter 4, and portions of chapter 5 to 8. The extant text of the Gospel of Mary, as found in the Berlin Gnostic Codex, is presented below. The manuscript text begins on page 7, in the middle of a passage.

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被发现在柏林的诺斯底法典（或纸莎草纸银中8502马利亚福音，为这个古老的诺斯底文本标记收集归档的原因）。显然，这非常重要，保存完好的手抄本被发现在十九世纪晚期在上埃及艾赫米姆附近某处。这是购买于1896年由德国学者卡尔·莱因哈特博士在开罗，然后带到柏林。

这本书（或“食品法典委员会”，这些古籍都是称为）可能是复制和捆绑的，在后期的第四或第五世纪初。它包含了三个非常重要的早期基督教诺斯底文本玛丽福音约翰Apocryphon的，和索菲娅耶稣基督的科普特翻译。文本本身迄今第二个世纪，最初创作于希腊。 （在过去一个世纪的学术著作中，这一法典，是可变和混淆学者引用“柏林诺斯底法典”，“艾赫米姆法典”，8502 PB，和BG 8502）。

尽管发现这个古老的诺斯底经文收集的重要性，一些不幸，包括两次世界大战推迟了​​，直到1955年出版。那么大拿格哈马蒂收集古老的诺斯底主义的著作也被追回。结果发现，两本手抄本中的文本 - 约翰Apocryphon的，和耶稣基督索菲娅 - 副本也被保存在的拿格哈马蒂集合。柏林诺斯底法典的文本被用来帮助和增强的Apocryphon约翰和耶稣索菲娅的翻译，因为他们现在公布在拿格哈马蒂图书馆。

但更重要的是，食品法典委员会保留最完整的生存片段的福音玛丽（文字被命名的稿件，但很显然，这个命名的玛丽是人，我们称为抹大拉的玛丽）。后来出土的考古发掘在Oxyrhynchus下埃及的福音玛丽从单独的希腊版本的另外两个小片段。 （片段福音的托马斯还发现，在这个古老的站点;看到Oxyrhynchus托马斯页面福音有关Oxyrhynchus的更多信息。）查找三个片段，这个古老的文字是极为不寻常的，因此，它是证明玛丽福音分布在早期基督教时代，在希腊原文和科普特语翻译的存在。

不幸的是，幸存的手稿的福音玛丽缺少第1页至第6和第11至第14页 - 网页，其中包括部分文本第4章，第5章的部分8。现存的文字，如发现玛丽的福音在柏林诺斯底法典，介绍如下。原稿文本从第7页开始，在中间的一个通道。

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