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Texts in Coptic

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Gospel of Judas

Apocryphon of John

second-century Sethian Gnostic text

Sayings of the Desert Fathers

stories attributed to early Christian hermits and monks

New Testament apocrypha

Gospel of Jesus' Wife

papyrus fragment with forged Coptic text

History of Joseph the Carpenter

compilation of traditions concerning the family of Jesus; probably composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th – early 7th century; survives in Coptic and Arabic; supports the perpetual virginity of Mary

Hypostasis of the Archons

Letter of Peter to Philip

2nd or 3rd century Gnostic Christian epistle

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

Unknown Berlin Gospel

a fragmentary Coptic text from an otherwise unknown Gnostic gospel

The Eighth Reveals the Ninth

ancient Hermetic treatise