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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...

The word “gnostic” has two meanings. One is a broad meaning, denoting all the religious movements represented in this book, and many more besides. The elusive category (“gnosticism”) that corresponds to this broad meaning has always been hard to define. The other meaning of “gnostic” is narrow and more strictly historical: it is the self-given name of an ancient Christian sect, the gnōstikoi, or “gnostics.” Because the ancient sect of the gnostics
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