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The works in this collection are heretical—a heretical counterpart of the holy Scriptures of Christianity and Judaism (which Gnostics also read). But despite their highly unorthodox character, these works shed great light on the theology, atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. The Gnostic movement did not simply share in the culture to which early...

1 1 The teaching [of the] savior and [the revelation] of the mysteries, [which] are hidden in silence [and which] it (the savior) taught to John [its] disciple. 5 Oncec upon a time when John the brother of James, one of the sons of Zebedee, was going up to the templed 8 a Pharisee named Arimanios encountered him and said to him, Where is your teacher, the man that you used to follow? 11 And
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