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RedTailHawk on Nostr: Yes. I have a copy. I need to dig through it too. I looked into both Nag Hammadi and ...

Yes. I have a copy. I need to dig through it too.
I looked into both Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea Scrolls early in this ongoing research bender, like around September 2023. I got about 50 pages into my DSS book and then I stopped. I got something useful out of it but my attention must have gotten side tracked by another book.

Recently I was surfing YouTube and found a channel called "Let's Talk Religion" so I made a playlist of a couple dozen videos and started listening my way through them.
One was about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes. When I listened to it, the host was remarking upon a rather strict and unique rule from the DSS about not falling asleep during community meetings.

This triggered a thought. I had just finished reading through the Kolbrin and I had remembered that there were a bunch of community rules/laws in several chapters. Given my claim that Moses brought Egyptian teachings to Judaism, I wondered if there was a similar rule about not falling asleep during community meetings in the Kolbrin.

There was.

Then I kept finding more and more and here we are.

Nag Hammadi definitely deserves a deeper dive and it will happen.
I might try to read that next, but I also need to finish a couple of Dolores Cannon books I started but didn't finish and I want to dig into Robert Monroe's stuff.
I also really really want to spend time processing E. A. Wallis Budge's Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. That book is a treasure trove for me. It'll probably wind up being responsible for a chapter's worth of content spread out across several chapters.

This Kolbrin-Dead Sea Scroll connection is definitely going to be worth several pages in the book.