The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and IntroductionsThis definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. Includeds maps and tables |
Contents
Historical Introduction | 5 |
The Secret Book According to John | 23 |
The Revelation of Adam | 52 |
The Reality of the Rulers | 65 |
The ThunderPerfect Intellect | 77 |
First Thought in Three Forms | 86 |
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit | 101 |
Zōstrianos excerpts | 121 |
Fragments of Lost Works | 229 |
Summer Harvest | 246 |
Historical Introduction | 267 |
Ptolemys Version of the Gnostic Myth | 276 |
A Prayer of Paul the Apostle | 303 |
Treatise on Resurrection Epistle to Rheginus | 316 |
The Gospel According to Philip | 325 |
Historical Introduction | 359 |
The Foreigner excerpts | 141 |
The Three Tablets of Seth | 149 |
Satorninos according to St Irenaeus | 159 |
Other Gnostic Teachings according to St Irenaeus | 170 |
The Gnostics according to Porphyry | 182 |
The Archontics according to St Epiphanius | 191 |
The Gnostics according to St Epiphanius | 199 |
Historical Introduction | 217 |
Valentinuss Myth according to St Irenaeus | 223 |
The Hymn of the Pearl or The Hymn of Jude Thomas | 366 |
The Gospel According to Thomas | 376 |
The Contender Writing to the Perfect | 400 |
V | 407 |
Historical Introduction | 413 |
Poimandrēs | 449 |
That the Greatest Human Evil Is | 460 |
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The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions Bentley Layton No preview available - 1995 |
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions Bentley Layton No preview available - 1995 |
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions Bentley Layton No preview available - 1987 |