Gnosticism and the Early Christian World.1 Of particular interest were essays by Gesine Robinson and Jack T. Sanders which either assumed or argued that Bultmann’s hypothesis, though not always his arguments, is correct and that documents like the Odes of Solomon and the Trimorphic Protennoia provide us with the best available parallels to Johannine thought. I found these essays disturbing not so much because their conclusions are at points quite erroneous, but because they exhibit insufficient awareness