Preliminary Material --Foreword /James M. Robinson --Preface /Douglas M. Parrott --Table of Tractates in the Coptic Gnostic Library /Douglas M. Parrott --Abbreviations and Short Titles /Douglas M. Parrott --Textual Signs /Douglas M. Parrott --Introduction /Douglas M. Parrott --Codicological Analysis of Nag Hammadi Codices V and VI and Papyrus Berolinensis 8502 /James M. Robinson --NHC V,2: The Apocalypse of Paul /William R. Murdock and George W. MacRae --NHC V,3: The (First) Apocalypse of James /William R. Schoedel --NHC V,4: The (Second) Apocalypse of James /Charles W. Hedrick --NHC V,5: The Apocalypse of Adam /George W. MacRae --NHC VI,1: The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles /R. McL. Wilson and Douglas M. Parrott --NHC VI,2: The Thunder: Perfect Mind /George W. MacRae --NHC VI,3: Authoritative Teaching /George W. MacRae --NHC VI,4: The Concept of Our Great Power /Frederik Wisse and Francis E. Williams --NHC VI,5: Plato, Republic 588b-589b /James Brashler --NHC VI,6: The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth /Peter A. Dirkse , James Brashler , and Douglas M. Parrott --NHC VI,7: The Prayer of Thanksgiving /Peter A. Dirkse and James Brashler --NHC VI,7a: Scribal Note /Douglas M. Parrott --NHC VI,8: Asclepius 21-29 /Peter A. Dirkse and Douglas M. Parrott --BG,1: The Gospel of Mary /R. McL. Wilson and George W. MacRae --BG,4: The Act of Peter /James Brashler and Douglas M. Parrott --Word Indices /Douglas M. Parrott --References to Ancient Works and Authors /Douglas M. Parrott.

Translation of: Neutestamentliche Apokryphen.

This volume places in synoptic form parallel texts from Nag Hammadi and from the Bible. This will enable scholars of Coptic Gnosticism, as well as scholars concerned with early Christian biblical interpretation, to make the comparisons necessary to determine relationships and what dependence, if any, there may be between these two bodies of material. This volume should facilitate the discussion concerning the origin, antiquity, and relationship of Gnosticism to Christianity. The volume also contains an extensive bibliography of materials relevant to this topic. Finally, a Scripture index will make it possible for the reader to find quickly any desired passage.

Preliminary Material /Harold W. Attridge --Foreword /James M. Robinson --Preface /Harold W. Attridge --Table of Tractates in the Coptic Gnostic Library /Harold W. Attridge --Abbreviations and Short Titles /Harold W. Attridge --Introduction /Harold W. Attridge --The Prayer of the Apostle Paul /Dieter Mueller --The Apocryphon of James /Francis E. Williams --The Gospel of Truth /Harold W. Attridge and S.J.|George W. MacRae --The Treatise on the Resurrection /Malcolm L. Peel --The Tripartite Tractate /Harold W. Attridge and Elaine H. Pagels --Indices /Harold W. Attridge.

This volume contains the critical edition of the five tractates in Nag Hammadi Codex VII, with codex introduction (by Frederik Wisse), introductions, Coptic text, and English translations and notes, of The Paraphrase of Shem (Wisse). Second Treatise of the Great Seth (Gregory Riley), Apocalypse of Peter (M. Desjardins and James Brashler), The Teachings of Silvanus (Malcolm Peel and Jan Sandee) and The Three Steles of Seth (James Goehring and James M. Robinson).

Since ancient works were preserved by means of handwritten copies, critical enquiry into their texts necessitates the study of such copies. In P.Beatty III (P47): The Codex, Its Scribe, and Its Text, Peter Malik focuses on the earliest extensive copy of the Book of Revelation. Integrating matters of palaeography, codicology, and scribal practice with textual analysis, Malik sheds new light on this largely neglected, yet crucially important, early Christian papyrus. Notable contributions include a new proposed date for P47, identification of several previously unreported scribal corrections, as well as the discovery of the manuscript’s close affinity with the Sahidic version. Significantly, Malik’s detailed, data-rich analyses are accompanied by a fresh transcription and, for the first time, high-resolution colour photographs of the manuscript.

Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis on Cyprus from about 367 until 402, was a witness to and participant in the troubled era after the Council of Nicaea. His Panarion, or "Medicine Chest," is an historical encyclopedia of ideas and movements he considered heretical, and of the replies Christians ought to make to them. Book II and III deal with the Trinity, the Person of Christ, the divinity and personality of the Holy Spirit, Manichaeism, penance, matrimony and celibacy, monastic regulations, the Christian Calendar, all hotly contested topics in the fourth century. Book I, issued by Brill in 1987, concerns Gnosticism and Jewish Christianity. Together, the two volumes are the only complete translation of the Panarion in a modern language.

This volume presents critical editions of three of the most fragmentary codices in the Nag Hammadi Library. Their nine tractates are presented in an English translation with critically edited transcriptions of Coptic texts, including introductions and notes. A complete set of indices is provided for Coptic and Greek words, proper names, ancient texts and authors, and modern authors. The contents of these three ancient books reflect the rich diversity of the Library as a whole. They include a fragmentary (and apparently non-Christian) revelation descent narrative (Hypsiphrone); a non-Christian Sethian text reflecting heavy platonizing influence (Allogenes); Hellenistic Greek wisdom literature (Sentence of Sextus); a non-christian Sethian text, secondarily Christianized (Trimorphic Protennoia); Valentinian Gnosticism (A Valentinian Exposition); a Christian-Gnostic tractate with Valentinian affinities (The Interpretation of Knowledge). A Christian-Gnostic (perhaps Valentinian) homily on the gospel (the Gospel of Truth); the first page of On the Origin of the World (completely preserved in NHC II) and an identified fragmentary tractate with ethical content. There are also five Valentinian liturgical supplements appended to Allogenes. The publication of these religio-philosophical materials from Nag Hammadi provides the scholar and interested reader with critical editions of texts that help to fill in background and context of gnostic origins, and that shed light on the interaction among early Christianity and gnostic movements in antiquity.

This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the content of Chaldean doctrine or must instead be abandoned because it represents a substantial misinterpretation of originary Chaldean teachings. The volume is augmented by Proclus’ Greek text, with English translation and commentary. Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles will be of interest to researchers working on Neoplatonism, Proclus and theurgy in the ancient world.

The use and appreciation of Scripture by the Manichaeans is a field of research with many unanswered questions. This study offers an investigation into the role of the Bible in the writings of the important Manichaean missionary Addas Adimantus (flor. ca. 250 CE), one of Mani's first disciples. A major part of the book is dedicated to the reconstruction of the contents of his Disputationes, in which writing Adimantus attempted to demonstrate that the Old and New Testaments are absolutely irreconcilable. The most important source in this connection is Augustine, who refuted a Latin translation of Adimantus’ work. A thorough analysis of the contents of the Disputationes brings to the fore that Adimantus was a Marcionite prior to his going over to Mani’s church.