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Nag Hammadi Library

The Nag Hammadi Codices were made by monks

One highly significant letter is in fact addressed to a certain
‘Father Pachomius,’ whom Lundhaug and Jenott maintain is the
famous abbot Pachomius himself. If so, then this letter
demonstrates a close connection between the makers of the codices
and the nearby Pachomian monks.

[In the book](https://www.academia.edu/50918807/Dating_and_Contextualising_the_Nag_Hammadi_Codices_and_Their_Texts_A_Multi_Methodological_Approach_Including_New_Radiocarbon_Evidence_2021_),
the authors further discuss which type of monastic
group may have owned the codices. A variety of monastic groups
existed at this period who did not share the same theological beliefs.

However, it is to the Pachomian Federation in particular to which
the authors turn for answers. As several of these Pachomian
monasteries lay close to the place of discovery, and used the
cliffs for burials and ascetic practices, it is not unlikely that
the owners of these codices were
[Pachomians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheneset-Chenoboskion).

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