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Old 02-14-2009, 09:11 PM   #11
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Gnostic "discoveries" since the mid-19th century

(1) Syriac and coptic literature (1850-present)
(2) The Nag Hammadi Codices (1948), published 1970
(3) The gJudas (1948?), published recently.

Are there any more recent discoveries by which we can assemble a corpus of "gnostic literature" which has only relatively recently become available? Because it is from the "gnostic" and/or non-christian literature that it may, or may not, be possible to recover the name or names by which the gnostics regarded the orthodox.


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In the mid-19th century, eighty years before the chance discovery
of a treasure trove of Gnostic manuscripts in a dump in Egypt,
C.W. King collected what was known about the Gnostics in this book.
At that time there were only three sources of information on Gnosticism:

* polemics against them by early Christian writers,
* the Pistis Sophia, and a jumble of confusing images and
* cryptic inscriptions on Roman-era gems and amulets.
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