Voices: From the Past to the Future

By Christi Checkett

On a December day in 1945, near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, an Arab peasant, digging around a boulder in search of fertilizer for his fields, happened upon an old large red earthenware jar. Hoping to have found a buried treasure, he smashed the jar open. Inside he discovered no treasure but books. There were more than a dozen old codices bound in golden brown leather. He did not realize that he had found an extraordinary collection of ancient texts, manuscripts hidden a millennium and a half before -- probably by monks from the nearby monastery of St. Pachomius seeking to preserve them from a destruction ordered by the orthodox church as part of its violent expunging of heresy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508404577
• ISBN13: 9781508404576
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"