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The secret books of the Egyptian Gnostics: an introduction to the Gnostic Coptic manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion, with an English translation and critical evaluation of the Gospel according to Thomas


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The secret books of the Egyptian Gnostics: an introduction to the Gnostic Coptic manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion, with an English translation and critical evaluation of the Gospel according to Thomas

Author

Jean Doresse, Philip Mairet, Leonard Johnston

Year of Publication

1960

Publisher

Viking Press

City of Publication

New York

Pages

445

Language

en

ISBN

9780404046460, 0404046460, 9780404046460

ARI Id

1671518128496


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Introduction:
I. The problem of Gnosticism: its earliest known elements
The discovery and the critical study of Gnosticism
Its ancient adversaries
The sects as their enemies depict them
The great Gnostic doctors (Nicolas, Simon and Helen, Menander, Satornil, Basilides, Carpocrates, Valentinus, Marcus, Justin)
The great sects: St. Irenaeus on the Cainites, Barbelo-Gnostics; Ophites
St. Epiphanius on the Great Gnostics; Ophites; Cainites; Archontici, Audians and Melchizedekians
The philosophumena on the Naassenes, Peratae and Sethians
Plotinus on Gnosticism
Theodore Bar-Konai, in the Book of Scholia, on the Audians, John of Apamea, the Kukeans, Kanteans and Battai
Some outstanding questions
II. Original texts and monuments
The Books of Pistis-Sophia
The Books of the Savior
The Books of Jeou
The untitled and anonymous treatise of the Bruce Codex
The Gnostic manuscript of Berlin
Various fragments
Gnostic monuments and paintings
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