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Nag Hammadi library, a Rare card
The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Nag Hammadi library quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nag Hammadi library card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in ____.
Answer
1940s. The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. From the Nag Hammadi library article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 77 · Nag Hammadi library 73 · Belle Époque 70 · Republic Day 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Republic Day. Republic Day 750,000 · Belle Époque 600,000 · Walt Frazier 450,000 · Nag Hammadi library 280,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Twelve leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by an Egyptian farmer named Muhammed al-Samman and others in late 1945.
- The writings in these codices comprise 52 mostly Gnostic treatises, along with three works belonging to the Corpus Hermeticum, and a partial translation/alteration of Plato's Republic.
- In his introduction to The Nag Hammadi Library in English, James Robinson suggests that these codices may have belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery and were buried after Saint Athanasius condemned the use of non-canonical books in his Festal Letter of 367 A.D. The Pachomian hypothesis has been further expanded by Lundhaug & Jenott and further strengthened by Linjamaa.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nag Hammadi library article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Nag Hammadi library (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
