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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2013
      August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139342063
      9781108050913
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342063
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.95kg, 658 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Ancient Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Ancient Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    Published in 1851, this edition of an important second-century Gnostic work presents the Coptic text derived from codices held in the British Museum and originally ascribed to the authorship of a certain Valentinus. These manuscript sources were scrutinised and translated into Latin by the German scholar Möritz Gotthilf Schwartze (1802–48) at the behest of the king of Prussia, but he died before the book could be completed. The task of preparing Schwartze's work for publication fell to Julius Heinrich Petermann (1801–76), professor of oriental literature at the University of Berlin. The arcane and difficult text describes esoteric Gnostic teachings which - just as in the traditional Gospels - are delivered by Jesus to his disciples. At the beginning, he is said to have spent eleven years after the resurrection teaching them this mysterious higher knowledge. Both the annotated Coptic text and Schwartze's Latin translation are frequently interspersed with Greek.

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