The Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition by Bentley Layton, David Brakke ISBN 978-0274754151 ‎ 0274754150

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 0274754150

ISBN 13: 978-0274754151

Author: Bentley Layton, David Brakke

A collection of extra-biblical scriptures written by the gnostics, updated with three ancient texts including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas

“The one indispensable book for the understanding of Gnosis and Gnosticism.”—Harold Bloom

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts from Greek, Latin, and Coptic, with introductions, bibliographies, and annotations. The texts are organized to reflect the history of gnosticism in the second through fourth century CE. This second edition provides updates throughout and adds three new ancient texts, including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas.

Table of contents: 

I. Classic Gnostic Scripture

• Historical Introduction

• The Secret Book According to John

• The Gospel of Judas

• The Revelation of Adam

• The Reality of the Rulers

• The Thunder–Perfect Intellect

• First Thought in Three Forms

• The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (The Egyptian Gospel)

• Zōstrianos (excerpts)

• The Foreigner (excerpts)

• The Three Tablets of Seth

• Satorninos (according to St. Irenaeus)

• The Gnostics (according to St. Irenaeus)

• “Other” Gnostic Teachings (according to St. Irenaeus)

• The Gnostics (according to Porphyry)

• The Sethians (according to St. Epiphanius)

• The Archontics (according to St. Epiphanius)

• The Gnostics (according to St. Epiphanius)

II. The Writings of Valentinus

• Historical Introduction

• Valentinus’s Myth (according to St. Irenaeus)

• Fragments of Lost Works

  • The Divine Word Present in the Infant (Fragment A)

  • On the Three Natures (Fragment B)

  • Adam’s Faculty of Speech (Fragment C)

  • Adam’s Name (Fragment D)

  • Jesus’ Digestive System: Epistle to Agathopous (Fragment E)

  • Annihilation of the Realm of Death (Fragment F)

  • The Source of Common Wisdom: On Friends (Fragment G)

  • The Vision of God: Epistle on Attachments (Fragment H)

• Summer Harvest

• Appendix: A Later Allegorical Interpretation

• The Gospel of Truth

III. The School of Valentinus

• Historical Introduction

• Ptolemy’s Version of the Gnostic Myth (according to St. Irenaeus)

• A Prayer of Paul the Apostle

• The Tripartite Tractate

• Ptolemy’s Epistle to Flora

• Treatise on Resurrection (Epistle to Rheginus)

• The Gospel According to Philip: A Valentinian Anthology

• Clement of Alexandria’s Excerpts from Theodotus

IV. The School of St. Thomas

• Historical Introduction

• The Hymn of the Pearl (or The Hymn of Jude Thomas the Apostle in the Country of the Indians)

• The Gospel According to Thomas

• The Book of Thomas: The Contender Writing to the Perfect

V. Other Early Currents

• Historical Introduction

• The Writings of Basilides

  • Historical Introduction

  • Basilides’ Myth (according to St. Irenaeus)

  • Fragments of Lost Works

VI. Cosmological Fragments

• The Cosmological Fragments

• The Octet of Subsistent Entities (Fragment A)

• The Uniqueness of the World (Fragment B)

VII. Ethical Fragments

• The Ethical Fragments

• Election Naturally Entails Faith and Virtue (Fragment C)

• The State of Virtue (Fragment D)

• The Elect Transcend the World (Fragment E)

• Reincarnation (Fragment F)

• Human Suffering and the Goodness of Providence (Fragment G)

• Forgivable Sins (Fragment H)

VIII. The Hermetic Corpus (Excerpts)

• Historical Introduction

• Tractate 1: Poimandrēs

• Tractate 7: That the Greatest Human Evil Is Unacquaintance with God

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