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2 Esdras
apocalyptic book, preserved in Latin as an appendix to the Vulgate; tripartite work consisting of 5 Ezra (a Christian work), 4 Ezra (a Jewish apocalypse), and 6 Ezra (predicts wars and rebukes sinners; perhaps Christian)
Gospel of Philip
Third century gnostic text
Hexapla
thumb|right|350px|The inter-relationship between various ancient versions of the Old Testament, between ca. 400 BC and AD 600, according to the Encyclopaedia Biblica. Origen's Hexapla, here labelled with the adjectival Hexaplar, is shown as the source of the [[Codex Sinaiticus (א), Codex Alexandrinus (A) and Codex Vaticanus (B), three of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament, as well as of two early Syro-Aramaic translations, the Harklean and Palestinian versions.]] Hexapla (), also called Origenis Hexaplorum, is a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, four o
Ascension of Isaiah
book; one of the Pseudepigrapha
Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter
Gnostic Christian text (c. 200 AD)
Didascalia Apostolorum
early Christian church order from the 3rd century
Letter of Peter to Philip
2nd or 3rd century Gnostic Christian epistle
Hypostasis of the Archons
literary work
Acts of Peter and the Twelve
Christian Gnostic text
Second Treatise of the Great Seth
3rd-century Gnostic text
Apocalypse of Elijah
2nd-4th century Christian text
Testament of Adam
2nd-5th century CE Christian pseudepigraphical work; purports to be the final words of Adam to Seth
Contra Celsum
treatise by Origen
Oxyrhynchus hymn
manuscript
Stromata
The Stromata (), a mistake for Stromateis (Στρωματεῖς, "Patchwork," i.e., Miscellanies), attributed to Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – c. 215), is the third of a trilogy of works regarding the Christian life. The oldest extant manuscripts date to the eleventh century. The work is titled Stromateis ("patchwork”) because it deals with such a variety of matters. It goes further than its two predecessors and aims at the perfection of the Christian life by initiation into complete knowledge. It attempts, on the basis of Scripture and tradition, to give such an account of the Christian faith as shal
Books of Jeu
two 3rd-century Christian texts
On First Principles
theological treatise by Origen
Refutation of all Heresies
work by Hippolytus of Rome
Testimony of Truth
Christian Gnostic text
Three Steles of Seth
Gnostic text
Unknown Berlin Gospel
a fragmentary Coptic text from an otherwise unknown Gnostic gospel
Fayyum Fragment
3rd-century Christian gospel manuscript
Acts of Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice
martyrdom account about three Christians traveling through Pergamum
Book of Nepos
3rd-century Christian text written by an Egyptian bishop
Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
3rd-century Christian martyrdom text