Gnostic texts

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<td >Part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gnosticism" title="Category:Gnosticism" >a series</a> on</td>

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<th ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism" >Gnosticism</a></th>

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<th ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gnosticism" title="History of Gnosticism" >History</a></th>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian-Egyptic_Gnosticism" title="Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism" >Syrian-Egyptic</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism" title="Mandaeism" >Mandaeism</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism" title="Manichaeism" >Manichaeism</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabians_of_Harran" title="Sabians of Harran" class="mw-redirect" >Sabians of Harran</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze" title="Druze" >Druze</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism_in_modern_times" title="Gnosticism in modern times" >Modern schools</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Manichaeism" title="Chinese Manichaeism" >Chinese Manichaeism</a></li>

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<th ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gnosticism" title="Christian Gnosticism" >Proto-Gnostics</a></th>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo" title="Philo" >Philo</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus" title="Simon Magus" >Simon Magus</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerinthus" title="Cerinthus" >Cerinthus</a></li>

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinus_(Gnostic)" title="Valentinus (Gnostic)" >Valentinus</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides" title="Basilides" >Basilides</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_(gnostic)" title="Menander (gnostic)" >Menander</a></li>

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<th ><strong class="selflink" >Scriptures</strong></th>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_Gospels" title="Gnostic Gospels" >Gnostic Gospels</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library" title="Nag Hammadi library" >Nag Hammadi library</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Abdias" title="Pseudo-Abdias" >Pseudo-Abdias</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_literature" title="Clementine literature" >Clementine literature</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism_and_the_New_Testament" title="Gnosticism and the New Testament" >Gnosticism and the New Testament</a></li>

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<th ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex" title="Codex" >Codices</a></th>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Tchacos" title="Codex Tchacos" >Codex Tchacos</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askew_Codex" title="Askew Codex" >Askew Codex</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Codex" title="Bruce Codex" >Bruce Codex</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Codex" title="Berlin Codex" >Berlin Codex</a></li>

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<th >Lists</th>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gnostic_sects" title="List of Gnostic sects" >Gnostic sects</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms" title="List of gnostic terms" >Gnostic terms</a></li>

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<th >Related articles</th>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis" title="Gnosis" >Gnosis</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnana" title="Jnana" >Jnana</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Christianity" title="Esoteric Christianity" >Esoteric Christianity</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy" >Theosophy</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism_and_Gnosticism" title="Neoplatonism and Gnosticism" >Neoplatonism and Gnosticism</a></li>

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<p ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism" >Gnosticism</a> used a number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text" >religious texts</a> that are preserved, in part or whole, in ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscripts" title="Manuscripts" class="mw-redirect" >manuscripts</a> or are lost but mentioned critically in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers" title="Church Fathers" >Patristic</a> writings.

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<h2 >Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#Gnostic_texts" >1 Gnostic texts</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#Full_or_fragmentary" >1.1 Full or fragmentary</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#Quoted_or_alluded" >1.2 Quoted or alluded</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#Manuscripts" >2 Manuscripts</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#Notes" >3 Notes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#External_links" >5 External links</a></li>

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<h2 >Gnostic texts[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnostic_texts&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Gnostic texts" >edit</a>]</h2>

<h3 >Full or fragmentary[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnostic_texts&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Full or fragmentary" >edit</a>]</h3>

<p >These texts exist in surviving manuscripts.</p>

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<li >The Hymn of Jesus</li>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Peter" title="Acts of Peter" >Acts of Peter</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Peter_and_the_Twelve" title="Acts of Peter and the Twelve" >Acts of Peter and the Twelve</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Thomas" title="Acts of Thomas" >Acts of Thomas</a>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hymn_of_the_Pearl" title="The Hymn of the Pearl" class="mw-redirect" >The Hymn of the Pearl</a></li>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allogenes" title="Allogenes" >Allogenes</a></li>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Adam" title="Apocalypse of Adam" >Apocalypse of Adam</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Apocalypse_of_James" title="First Apocalypse of James" >First Apocalypse of James</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Apocalypse_of_James" title="Second Apocalypse of James" >Second Apocalypse of James</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_James" title="Apocryphon of James" >Apocryphon of James</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_John" title="Apocryphon of John" >Apocryphon of John</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Apocalypse_of_Paul" title="Coptic Apocalypse of Paul" >Coptic Apocalypse of Paul</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Apocalypse_of_Peter" title="Coptic Apocalypse of Peter" class="mw-redirect" >Coptic Apocalypse of Peter</a></li>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Jeu" title="Books of Jeu" >Books of Jeu</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Thomas_the_Contender" title="Book of Thomas the Contender" >Book of Thomas the Contender</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_of_the_Saviour" title="Dialogue of the Saviour" >Dialogue of the Saviour</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_Peter_to_Philip" title="Letter of Peter to Philip" >Letter of Peter to Philip</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes_of_Solomon" title="Odes of Solomon" >Odes of Solomon</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistis_Sophia" title="Pistis Sophia" >Pistis Sophia</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Secret Gospel of Mark" >Secret Gospel of Mark</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sophia_of_Jesus_Christ" title="The Sophia of Jesus Christ" >The Sophia of Jesus Christ</a></li>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Gospel_of_the_Egyptians" title="Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians" class="mw-redirect" >Gospel of the Egyptians</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas" title="Gospel of Judas" >Gospel of Judas</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary" title="Gospel of Mary" >Gospel of Mary</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Philip" title="Gospel of Philip" >Gospel of Philip</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" title="Gospel of Thomas" >Gospel of Thomas</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Truth" title="Gospel of Truth" >Gospel of Truth</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Berlin_Gospel" title="Unknown Berlin Gospel" >Unknown Berlin Gospel</a> or <i>Gospel of the Savior</i></li>

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<h3 >Quoted or alluded[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnostic_texts&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Quoted or alluded" >edit</a>]</h3>

<p >These texts are mentioned or partially quoted in the writings of the Church Fathers.</p>

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<li ><i>Gospel of Basilides</i> mentioned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen" title="Origen" >Origen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome" >Jerome</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose" title="Ambrose" >Ambrose</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_of_Side" title="Philip of Side" >Philip of Side</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede" title="Bede" >Bede</a>.</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides" title="Basilides" >Basilides</a>' <i>Exegetica</i> mentioned in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolytus_of_Rome" title="Hippolytus of Rome" >Hippolytus of Rome</a> (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refutatio_Omnium_Haeresium" title="Refutatio Omnium Haeresium" class="mw-redirect" >Refutatio Omnium Haeresium</a></i> VII, i-xv and X, x) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria" title="Clement of Alexandria" >Clement of Alexandria</a> (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromata" title="Stromata" >Stromata</a></i> IV, xii and IV, xxiv-xxvi)</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanes_(gnostic)" title="Epiphanes (gnostic)" >Epiphanes</a>' <i>On Righteousness</i>, mentioned in Clement of Alexandria (<b>Str.</b> III, ii).</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleon" title="Heracleon" >Heracleon</a>, Fragments from his Commentary on the Gospel of John, mentioned in Origen (<i>Commentary on the Gospel of John</i>)</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naassene_Fragment" title="Naassene Fragment" >Naassene Fragment</a> mentioned in Hippolytus (<i>Ref.</i> 5.7.2-9).</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophite_Diagrams" title="Ophite Diagrams" >Ophite Diagrams</a> mentioned in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsus" title="Celsus" >Celsus</a> and Origen</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_(gnostic)" title="Ptolemy (gnostic)" >Ptolemy's</a> <i>Commentary on the Gospel of John Prologue</i>, mentioned in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenaeus" title="Irenaeus" >Irenaeus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#cite_note-1" >[1]</a></sup></li>

<li >Ptolemy's <i>Letter to Flora</i>, mentioned in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanius_of_Salamis" title="Epiphanius of Salamis" >Epiphanius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup></li>

<li >Theodotus: <i>Excerpta Ex Theodoto</i> mentioned in Clement of Alexandria.</li>

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<h2 >Manuscripts[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnostic_texts&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Manuscripts" >edit</a>]</h2>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askew_Codex" title="Askew Codex" >Askew Codex</a> contains <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistis_Sophia" title="Pistis Sophia" >Pistis Sophia</a> and some other unknown texts.</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Codex" title="Berlin Codex" >Berlin Codex</a>, 5th century, contains a fragmentary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary" title="Gospel of Mary" >Gospel of Mary</a>, out of nineteen pages, pages 1–6 and 11-14 are missing entirely, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_John" title="Apocryphon of John" >Apocryphon of John</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sophia_of_Jesus_Christ" title="The Sophia of Jesus Christ" >The Sophia of Jesus Christ</a>, and an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitome" title="Epitome" >epitome</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Peter" title="Act of Peter" >Act of Peter</a>.</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Codex" title="Bruce Codex" >Bruce Codex</a> contains the first and second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Jeu" title="Books of Jeu" >Books of Jeu</a> and three fragments - an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text "On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst".</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Tchacos" title="Codex Tchacos" >Codex Tchacos</a>, 4th century, contains the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas" title="Gospel of Judas" >Gospel of Judas</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Apocalypse_of_James" title="First Apocalypse of James" >First Apocalypse of James</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_Peter_to_Philip" title="Letter of Peter to Philip" >Letter of Peter to Philip</a>, and a fragment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allogenes" title="Allogenes" >Allogenes</a>.</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library" title="Nag Hammadi library" >Nag Hammadi library</a> contains a large number of texts (for a complete list see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library#Complete_list_of_codices_found_in_Nag_Hammadi" title="Nag Hammadi library" >the listing</a>)</li>

<li >Three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus" >Oxyrhynchus</a> papyri contain portions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" title="Gospel of Thomas" >Gospel of Thomas</a>:

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Oxyrhynchus_1" title="Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1" >Oxyrhyncus 1</a>: this is half a leaf of papyrus which contains fragments of logion 26 through 33.</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Oxyrhynchus_654" title="Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654" >Oxyrhyncus 654</a>: this contains fragments of the beginning through logion 7, logion 24 and logion 36 on the flip side of a papyrus containing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying" title="Surveying" >surveying</a> data.</li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Oxyrhynchus_655" title="Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655" >Oxyrhyncus 655</a>: this contains fragments of logion 36 through logion 39 and is actually 8 fragments named <i>a</i> through <i>h</i>, whereof <i>f</i> and <i>h</i> have since been lost.</li>

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<h2 >Notes[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnostic_texts&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes" >edit</a>]</h2>

<li id="cite_note-1" ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#cite_ref-1" >Jump up^{</a></b> <i>}<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Detection_and_Overthrow_of_the_So-Called_Gnosis" title="On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis" >Adversus haereses</a></i>, I, viii, 5.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_texts#cite_ref-2" >Jump up^{</a></b> <i>Hær.</i> XXXIII}, 3-7.</li>

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<li ><b>General topics</b>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha" title="New Testament apocrypha" >New Testament apocrypha</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudepigraphy" title="Pseudepigraphy" class="mw-redirect" >Pseudepigraphy</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism" >Gnosticism</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism" >Textual criticism</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrapha" title="Agrapha" >Agrapha</a></li>

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<li ><b>Related literature</b>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gospels" title="List of Gospels" >List of Gospels</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_literature" title="Apocalyptic literature" >Apocalyptic literature</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistles" title="Epistles" class="mw-redirect" >Epistles</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles_(genre)" title="Acts of the Apostles (genre)" >Acts of the Apostles (genre)</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_papyri" title="List of New Testament papyri" >List of New Testament papyri</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostasis_of_the_Archons" title="Hypostasis of the Archons" >Hypostasis of the Archons</a></li>

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<h2 >External links[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnostic_texts&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links" >edit</a>]</h2>

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<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gnosis.org/library.html" >The Gnostic Society Library</a></li>

<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gnostics.html" >Gnostics, Gnostic Gospels, & Gnosticism</a> - from earlychristianwritings.com</li>

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<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lost_apocrypha" title="Category:Lost apocrypha" >Lost apocrypha</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Christian_controversies" title="Category:Ancient Christian controversies" >Ancient Christian controversies</a></li>

<li ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_bibliographies" title="Category:Religious bibliographies" >Religious bibliographies</a></li>

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