Jean Doresse

About The Author

Jean Doresse is a renowned historian and a scholar of Egyptology and Greek papyrology. He was head of the research department at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and for five years undertook expeditions on behalf of the French government, establishing the first archaeological service in Ethiopia. He lives in France.

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Books by Jean Doresse

The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Texts

A Firsthand Account of the Expedition That Shook the Foundations of Christianity

By Jean Doresse

Details the momentous discovery and significance of the ancient gnostic texts hidden for sixteen centuries in Chenoboskion, Egypt• Author was a member of the party that discovered these ancient Coptic documents• Sheds new light on the vanished world in which Christianity was born• 40,000 copies s...

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