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Concept
List of Gnostic texts
Summary
Gnosticism used a number of religious texts that are preserved, in part or whole, in ancient manuscripts, or lost but mentioned critically in Patristic writings.
Prior to the discovery at Nag Hammadi, only the following texts were available to students of Gnosticism. Reconstructions were attempted from the records of the heresiologists, but these were necessarily coloured by the motivation behind the source accounts.
Works preserved by the Church:
Acts of Thomas (Especially Hymn of the Pearl or The Hymn of the Robe of Glory)
The Acts of John (Especially The Hymn of Jesus)
The Bruce Codex (purchased in 1769 by James Bruce):
Books of Jeu, also known as The Gnosis of the Invisible God
The Untitled Text
The Askew Codex (British Museum, bought in 1784):
Pistis Sophia: Books of the Savior
The Berlin Codex or The Akhmim Codex (found in Akhmim, Egypt; bought in 1896 by Carl Reinhardt):
Apocryphon of John
an epitome of the Acts of Peter
The Wisdom of Jesus Christ
Unknown origin:
The Secret Gospel of Mark
The Hermetica
Codex I (also known as The Jung Codex):
The Prayer of the Apostle Paul
The Apocryphon of James (also known as the Secret Book of James)
The Gospel of Truth
The Treatise on the Resurrection
The Tripartite Tractate
Codex II:
The Apocryphon of John
The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel
The Gospel of Philip
The Hypostasis of the Archons
On the Origin of the World
The Exegesis on the Soul
The Book of Thomas the Contender
Codex III:
The Apocryphon of John
The Gospel of the Egyptians
Eugnostos the Blessed
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
The Dialogue of the Savior
Codex IV:
The Apocryphon of John
The Gospel of the Egyptians
Codex V:
Eugnostos the Blessed
The Apocalypse of Paul
The First Apocalypse of James
The Second Apocalypse of James
The Apocalypse of Adam
Codex VI:
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles (includes The Hymn of the Pearl)
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
Authoritative Teaching
The Concept of Our Great Power
Republic by Plato – The original is not Gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with then-current Gnostic concepts.
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