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The work of preparing these manuscripts for publication and translation has fallen to the Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, in Claremont, California. Facsimiles of all writings, prepared by the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, have been published by Brill (Leiden) from 1972 to 1978. English translations of all writings can be found in Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library. Critical editions with introduction and notes are in the process of publication in the Nag Hammadi Studies series.

For a summary of the discovery of the manuscripts and their subsequent marketing, see The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. James M. Robinson (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 3rd ed., 1988), pp. 22–26.

Edgar Hennecke and Wilhelm Schneemelcher, New Testament Aprocrypha, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963), vol. 1, p. 60.

Levi Yitzhak, Kedushat Levi, p. 53.

Chalier, Les Matriarches, p. 158.

H. Hibbard, Michelangelo (New York: Vendome, 1978), p. 174. While the Zohar sees Leah representing the “hidden world” and Rachel the “public world,” Dante, and Michelangelo following him, portray them as the opposite, Leah symbolizing the “active life” and Rachel the “contemplative life.”

Dante, Purgatorio 27. 103.

Zohar vol. 1, p. 225b; 168b; vol. p. 29b.

Genesis Rabbah 73. Genesis Rabbah 71. Ketav Sopher.

Genesis Rabbah 71.