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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. There is significant scholarly debate around what Gnosticism is, and therefore what qualifies as a "Gnostic text."
Pages in category "Gnostic texts" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Apocryphon; A. Act of Peter;
List of Gnostic texts; Texts. Nag Hammadi library; Pseudo-Abdias; Clementine literature; Gnosticism and the New Testament; Mandaean scriptures; Codices.
The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels [a]) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman. [1]
Page from the Gospel of Judas Mandaean Beth Manda in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among early Christian sects.
Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms – mid-2nd century, thought to be a Gnostic cosmology, most likely in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples; Gospel of Mary – 2nd century Gnostic text; Gospel of Judas – 2nd century, documents Gnostic teachings in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and Judas
Valentinus (Greek: Οὐαλεντῖνος; c. 100 CE – c. 180) was the best known and, for a time, most successful early Christian Gnostic theologian. [1] He founded his school in Rome.
The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Christian polemic Against Heresies , placing its composition before 180 AD.