CONTENTS

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface to the First Edition ix
4. Preface to the Second Edition xiii
5. General Introduction xv
6. Editorial Method xxix
7. Explanation of Typographical and Reference Systems xxxi
8. Other Accepted Names for the Works in This Collection xxxv
9. Ancient Sources and Manuscripts of Works in This Collection xxxix
10. List of Illustrations xliii
11. List of Abbreviations xlv
12. GNOSTIC SCRIPTURES
13. I. CLASSIC GNOSTIC SCRIPTURE
14. Historical Introduction 1
15. The Secret Book According to John 25
16. The Gospel of Judas 62
17. The Revelation of Adam 77
18. The Reality of the Rulers 93
19. The Thunder—Perfect Intellect 108
20. First Thought in Three Forms 118
21. The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit; or, The Egyptian Gospel 137
22. Zōstrianos (excerpts) . 162
23. The Foreigner (excerpts) 186
24. The Three Tablets of Seth 196
25. Satorninos (according to St. Irenaeus) 209
26. The Gnostics (according to St. Irenaeus) 213
27. “Other” Gnostic Teachings (according to St. Irenaeus) 220
28. The Gnostics (according to Porphyry) 234
29. The Sethians (according to St. Epiphanius) 237
30. The Archontics (according to St. Epiphanius) 243
31. The Gnostics (according to St. Epiphanius) 253
32. II. THE WRITINGS OF VALENTINUS
33. Historical Introduction 275
34. Valentinus’s Myth (according to St. Irenaeus) 281
35. Fragments of Lost Works 286
36. Summer Harvest 304
37. The Gospel of Truth 308
38. III. THE SCHOOL OF VALENTINUS
39. Historical Introduction 331
40. Ptolemy’s Version of the Gnostic Myth (according to St. Irenaeus) 341
41. A Prayer of Paul the Apostle 375
42. The Tripartite Tractate 379
43. Ptolemy’s Epistle to Flora 436
44. Treatise on Resurrection (Epistle to Rheginus) 448
45. The Gospel According to Philip: A Valentinian Anthology 459
46. Clement of Alexandria’s Excerpts from Theodotus 501
47. RELATED WRITINGS
48. IV. THE SCHOOL OF ST. THOMAS
49. Historical Introduction 535
50. The Hymn of the Pearl; or, The Hymn of Jude Thomas the Apostle in the Country of the Indians 543
51. The Gospel According to Thomas 555
52. The Book of Thomas: The Contender Writing to the Perfect 589
53. V. OTHER EARLY CURRENTS
54. Historical Introduction 603
55. The Writings of Basilides 605
56. The Cosmological Fragments 619
57. The Ethical Fragments 623
58. The Hermetic Corpus (excerpts) 637
59. Index of Names and Subjects 661
60. Index of Scripture References 704