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Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

Texts

surviving

Apocryphon (Secret Book) of John

2nd c. (Irenaeus summarizes a related myth c. 180) · Coptic (from Greek)

Groups: Sethians (Sethian Gnostics; "Gnostikoi")

Four copies in two recensions (short and long). It is the central Sethian myth.

Where the manuscripts are now

Sources

No open translation is linked. The status note says how the text is known.

DeChurched Atlas — Early Christianity as history, from every source