A Source-Critical Translation of the Apocryphon of John (Short Recension)
The revelation dialogue entitled The Apocryphon of John was built around an older text which had the form of a treatise. That treatise in turn made use of several sources, one of which was a version of the same treatise that Irenaeus reports in Haer. 1.29. This article offers a reconstruction of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Gnosis
Year: 2025, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-76 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sethianism
B The Apocryphon of John B Gnostic literary history B Source Criticism B revelation dialogue |
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| Summary: | The revelation dialogue entitled The Apocryphon of John was built around an older text which had the form of a treatise. That treatise in turn made use of several sources, one of which was a version of the same treatise that Irenaeus reports in Haer. 1.29. This article offers a reconstruction of the short recension of Ap. John in its original form based on a comparison of the manuscript witnesses and visualises typographically the various layers of the text. |
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| ISSN: | 2451-859X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Gnosis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/2451859X-01001002 |



