The Gnostic scriptures 2nd Edition by Bentley Layton, David Brakke 9780300208542 0300208545

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ISBN 10: 0300208545

ISBN 13: 9780300208542

Author: Bentley Layton, David Brakke

“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
Chapter 1: Historical Introduction
Chapter 2: The Secret Book According to John
Chapter 3: The Gospel of Judas
Chapter 4: The Revelation of Adam
Chapter 5: The Reality of the Rulers
Chapter 6: The Thunder—Perfect Intellect
Chapter 7: First Thought in Three Forms
Chapter 8: The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit; or, The Egyptian Gospel
Chapter 9: Zōstrianos (excerpts)
Chapter 10: The Foreigner (excerpts)
Chapter 11: The Three Tablets of Seth
Chapter 12: Satorninos (according to St. Irenaeus)
Chapter 13: The Gnostics (according to St. Irenaeus)
Chapter 14: Other Gnostic Teachings (according to St. Irenaeus)
Chapter 15: The Gnostics (according to Porphyry)
Chapter 16: The Sethians (according to St. Epiphanius)
Chapter 17: The Archontics (according to St. Epiphanius)
Chapter 18: The Gnostics (according to St. Epiphanius)

II: THE WRITINGS OF VALENTINUS
Chapter 19: Historical Introduction
Chapter 20: Valentinus’s Myth (according to St. Irenaeus)
Chapter 21: Fragments of Lost Works
Chapter 22: The Divine Word Present in the Infant (Fragment A)
Chapter 23: On the Three Natures (Fragment B)
Chapter 24: Adam’s Faculty of Speech (Fragment C)
Chapter 25: Adam’s Name (Fragment D)
Chapter 26: Jesus’ Digestive System: Epistle to Agathopous (Fragment E)
Chapter 27: Annihilation of the Realm of Death (Fragment F)
Chapter 28: The Source of Common Wisdom: On Friends (Fragment G)
Chapter 29: The Vision of God: Epistle on Attachments (Fragment H)
Chapter 30: Summer Harvest
Chapter 31: Appendix: A Later Allegorical Interpretation
Chapter 32: The Gospel of Truth

III: THE SCHOOL OF VALENTINUS
Chapter 33: Historical Introduction
Chapter 34: Ptolemy’s Version of the Gnostic Myth (according to St. Irenaeus)
Chapter 35: A Prayer of Paul the Apostle
Chapter 36: The Tripartite Tractate
Chapter 37: Ptolemy’s Epistle to Flora
Chapter 38: Treatise on Resurrection (Epistle to Rheginus)
Chapter 39: The Gospel According to Philip: A Valentinian Anthology
Chapter 40: Clement of Alexandria’s Excerpts from Theodotus

IV: THE SCHOOL OF ST. THOMAS
Chapter 41: Historical Introduction
Chapter 42: The Hymn of the Pearl; or, The Hymn of Jude Thomas the Apostle in the Country of the Indians
Chapter 43: The Gospel According to Thomas
Chapter 44: The Book of Thomas: The Contender Writing to the Perfect

V: OTHER EARLY CURRENTS
Chapter 45: Historical Introduction
Chapter 46: The Writings of Basilides
Chapter 47: Historical Introduction
Chapter 48: Basilides’ Myth (according to St. Irenaeus)
Chapter 49: Fragments of Lost Works
Chapter 50: The Cosmological Fragments
Chapter 51: The Octet of Subsistent Entities (Fragment A)
Chapter 52: The Uniqueness of the World (Fragment B)
Chapter 53: The Ethical Fragments
Chapter 54: Election Naturally Entails Faith and Virtue (Fragment C)
Chapter 55: The State of Virtue (Fragment D)
Chapter 56: The Elect Transcend the World (Fragment E)
Chapter 57: Reincarnation (Fragment F)
Chapter 58: Human Suffering and the Goodness of Providence (Commentaries, 23) (Fragment G)
Chapter 59: Forgivable Sins (Fragment H)
Chapter 60: The Hermetic Corpus (excerpts)
Chapter 61: Historical Introduction
Chapter 62: Tractate 1: Poimandrēs
Chapter 63: Tractate 7: That the Greatest Human Evil Is Unacquaintance with God

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