Of Jesus Christ as they now are published in Nag Hammadiīut more importantly, the codex preserves the most complete surviving fragment of the Gospel of Texts from the Berlin Gnostic Codex were used to aid and augment translations of the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia
Of Jesus Christ – had also been preserved in the Nag Hammadi collection. It was found that copies of two of the texts in this codex – the Apocryphon of John, and the Sophia By then the large Nag Hammadi collection of ancient Gnostic writings had also been recovered. The texts themselves date to the second century and were originally authored in Greek.ĭespite the importance of the discovery of this ancient collection of Gnostic scriptures, several misfortunes including two world wars delayed It contains Coptic translations of three very important early Christian Gnostic texts: the Gospel of Mary, the Apocryphon The codex (as these ancient books are called) was probably copied and bound in the late fourth or early fifth century. Carl Reinhardt, and then taken to Berlin. It was purchased in Cairo in 1896 by a German scholar, Dr. This very important and well-preserved codex was discovered in the late-nineteenth century somewhere near Akhmim in upper Egypt. The Gospel of Mary is found in the Berlin Gnostic Codex ( Papyrus Berolinensis 8502). King's introduction to The Gospel of Mary of Magdala
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