The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion (1958)

by Jean Doresse

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A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas.

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Doresse was writing intelligently about the Gnostic Gospels a long time before Pagels had a degree, and before the current renaissance in gnostic interest. Doresse, an expert in the Nag Hammadi corpus, makes no leaps like most new age hack writers and, unlike them, he gives you a history of Gnostic scholarship before the Nag Hammadi gospels were found. (

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Jean Doresse	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Johnston, Leonard	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Mairet, Philip	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Original (1958) title: Les livres secrets des Gnostques d'Egypt

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A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas.

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These Gnostic texts from the 4th century reveal the world of early Christianity and include The Gospel According to Thomas. This firsthand account of the discovery includes the first complete publication of the documents.

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