Coptic literature

Coptic-language early Christian non-canonical gospel, part of the Nag Hammadi library

early Christian text

collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945

Third century gnostic text

2nd century Valentinian homily

literary work

pseudonymous text amongst the New Testament apocrypha

body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, containing magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals, dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE

Christian Gnostic text

4th century Coptic manuscript

Gnostic Christian text (c. 200 AD)

Gnostic text found in the Nag Hammadi library, Codex V

New Testament apocryphal work

body of writings in the Coptic language of Egypt

literary work

ancient Coptic manuscript

Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha

2nd-century collection of maxims

Allogenes is a series of Gnostic texts. The main character in these texts is Allogenes (Greek: ἀλλογενής), which translates as 'stranger,' 'foreigner,' or 'of another race.' The first text discovered was Allogenes as the third tractate in Codex XI of the Nag Hammadi library. The Coptic manuscript is a translation of a Greek original, likely written in Alexandria before 300 AD. In this text, containing Middle Platonic or Neoplatonic elements, Allogenes receives divine revelations.

Ethiopian legal code compiled c. 1240

Sethian Gnostic text

medieval Coptic text against Arabization