Gnosis: The Nature and History of GnosticismHarper & Row, 1983 - 411 pages Presents a readable and appealing introduction to what otherwise might seem an inaccessible religion of late antiquity. |
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THE SOURCES | 3 |
The Heresiological Literature and the Older History | 9 |
The Older Sources | 25 |
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