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HERO OF THE NAG HAMMADI CODICES? An Egyptian peasant named Muhammed Ali claimed to have unearthed the sealed jar containing Coptic texts while digging for fertilizer near a cliff 7 miles northeast of Nag Hammadi in late 1945 or early 1946. He says he shattered the jar and discovered the mid-fourth-century manuscripts inside. Doubts have arisen, however.