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The Apocryphon of James (also known as the Secret Book of James) The Gospel of Truth; The Treatise on the Resurrection; The Tripartite Tractate; Codex II: The Apocryphon of John; The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel; The Gospel of Philip; The Hypostasis of the Archons; On the Origin of the World; The Exegesis on the Soul; The Book of Thomas ...
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]
The Second Apocalypse of James is a Gnostic writing. It is the fourth tractate in Codex V in the Nag Hammadi library, immediately following the First Apocalypse of James. [1] [2] [3] The order is a deliberate scribal choice, since the first text prepares James the Just for his death as a martyr, and the second text describes his death in detail.
Unlike the canonical gospels, this gospel does not contain an account of Jesus' life or teaching. It does contain insights concerning the resurrected Jesus' 40-day ministry. [citation needed] This gospel, like some other gnostic texts, can be interpreted as proclaiming predestination. [citation needed] One section states:
The Apocryphon of James, [1] also called the Secret Book of James [2] [3] or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, [4] [5] is a Gnostic epistle. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It is the second tractate in Codex I of the Nag Hammadi library .
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, also known as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, [1] [2] is a Sethian Gnostic text found in Codices III and IV of the Nag Hammadi library. The text describes the origin of three powers: the Father, the Mother, and the Son, who came forth from the great invisible Spirit.
Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels (1979) examines the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way that women have been viewed throughout Jewish history and Christian history. Modern Library named it as one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century.
The Gospel according to Philip: the sources and coherence of an early Christian collection. Leiden New York: E.J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-43967-2. OCLC 1035370738. Lundhaug, Hugo (2010). Images of rebirth: cognitive poetics and transformational soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-21650-1.