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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]
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.
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit refers to a divine emanation called 'Mother', who is also identified as the Barbēlō. Marsanes —several places. Melchizedek —twice, the second time in a prayer of Melchizedek: "Holy are you, Holy are you, Holy are you, Mother of the aeons, Barbelo, for ever and ever, Amen."
In the text, Zostrianos goes on a heavenly journey and receives divine knowledge from the aeons. [2] [4] The work is likely the same Zostrianos that Porphyry criticized in Life of Plotinus. [2] [4] [6] Like other Sethian Gnostic texts Marsanes, Allogenes, and Three Steles of Seth, its ideas appear more Middle Platonic or Neoplatonic than Christian.
Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek.