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Allogenes is a series of Gnostic texts. [1] [2] The main character in these texts is Allogenes (Greek: ἀλλογενής), which translates as 'stranger,' 'foreigner,' or 'of another race.' [3] [4] The first text discovered was Allogenes as the third tractate in Codex XI of the Nag Hammadi library. [5]
Bruce Codex contains the first and second Books of Jeu and three fragments – an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text "On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst". Codex Tchacos, 4th century, contains the Gospel of Judas, the First Apocalypse of James, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and a fragment of Allogenes.
Codex Tchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic codex from approximately 300 AD, which contains early Christian gnostic texts: the Letter of Peter to Philip, the First Apocalypse of James, the Gospel of Judas, and a fragment of The Temptation of Allogenes (a different text from the previously known Nag Hammadi Library text Allogenes).
The Three Steles of Seth—along with Zostrianos, Allogenes, and Marsanes—uses the ascent pattern. [5] Furthermore, these four Sethian texts are grouped together because of their extensive use of terminology from Platonic philosophy. [6] [7] Thus, the original work was likely written before Plotinus's Against the Gnostics in c. 265. [8]
A lengthy version, the first of the three versions in the Nag Hammadi library. The text is a revelation in the form of questions and answers given by Jesus to the apostle John. 07: 2: The Gospel of Thomas: 32–51: Gos. Thom. A collection of sayings of Jesus given secretly to the apostles. Some of the sayings are known from the canonical Gospels.
A translation of the Codex Tchacos version can be found at: [18] "The Letter of Peter to Philip". The Gospel of Judas: Together with the Letter of Peter to Philip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos: Critical edition. Translated by Meyer, Marvin W.; Gaudard, François. National Geographic. 2007. pp. 92– 109. ISBN 9781426201912.
The Book of Thomas the Contender from Codex II of the Cairo Gnostic Library from Nag Hammadi (CG II,7). Missoula 1975, ISBN 0-89130-017-1. with Anne McGuire: The Nag Hammadi Library after fifty years. Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature commemoration. Leiden 1997, ISBN 90-04-10824-6.
Youel is mentioned in Nag Hammadi texts such as The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, Zostrianos, Allogenes the Stranger. In the latter two texts, Youel gives five revelations to protagonists Zostrianos and Allogenes, respectively, during their visionary ascents to heaven. [2]