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James M. Robinson (1924–2016) was the American scholar who edited the definitive English translation of the Nag Hammadi Library. His decades of work negotiating access to the manuscripts and organising their translation made the Gnostic texts available to the English-speaking world.
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- Led the Coptic Gnostic Library Project at Claremont Graduate University
- Edited The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1977, revised 1988) — the standard scholarly edition for decades
- Negotiated with Egyptian authorities and UNESCO to gain access to the manuscripts
- Also worked on the Gospel of Judas when it surfaced in the 1990s