General Sources
NTA = New Testament Apocrypha
Acts of Judas Thomas (AJT), translations and commentaries
Bornkamm, Gunther. NTA-1965 [New Testament Apocrypha, E. Hennecke
ed. (Philadelphia, 1965)] vol 2, 425-531.
Drijvers, H. J. W. NTA-1992 [New Testament Apocrypha, W. Schneedmelcher
(Rev. ed., Cambridge, 1992)] vol. 2, 322-411.
Klijn, A. F. J. The Acts of Thomas (Leiden, l962).
James, Montague. The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, l924) 364-437.
LaFargue, Michael. Language and Gnosis (Philadelphia, 1983).
Riddle,M. B., Trans. "Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas," Ante-Nicene
Fathers (Reprint, Grand Rapids, 1981) vol. viii, 535-54.
Wright, William. Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (London, l87l;
reprint Amsterdam, l968) 146-298.
Gnosticism
There is a very large literature on Gnosticism. The following,
cThe Gnostic Religion (Boston, l958).
Layton, Bentley. The Gnostic Scriptures (New York, 1987).
Rudolph, Kurt. Gnosis: Nature and History of Gnosticism R. M. Wilson,
trans. and ed., (San Francisco, l98l).
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels (New York, l979).
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In the bridal chamber at Andrapolis
AJT, First Act.
Gnostic goal: ascent of individual spirit to universal spirit
Epiphanius, Layton, 213.
Examples of texts that describe the process are in Robinson (NHL), 262-268
(First Apocalypse of James ) and 190-98 (Exegesis on the Soul
).
"Gnosis" translated as "acquaintance"
Layton, 9.
Plato's myth of creation
Timaeus. Jowett trans., vol. 2, 12-24.
Plato's spheroid human
Symposium. Jowett trans., vol. 1,306-319.
Marilaha, supreme among the planetary gods
J. B. Segal Edessa (Oxford, l970) 57-60.
The Six Enneads
Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page trans. (Chicago, 1952)
Fifth Ennead,3,1;
Sixth Ennead, IX,7.
Role of Sophia and "Word" in Philo
Helmer Ringgren, Word and Wisdom (Lund, Sweden, l947) 124-5;
Ronald Williamson, Jews in the Hellenistic World: Philo. (Cambridge,
1989) 103-12.
Proverbs 8: 22 and 30, King James Version. Moffatt translation: "The Eternal formed me first of his creation; first of all his works in days of old" and "I was with him then, his foster-child, I was his delight day after day."
Gnostic creation myths
Layton, 12-19.
Valentinian system
Hippolytus.
Philosophumena. Trans. F. Legge (London, l92l) vol. 2, 25-38, 83-133;
Jonas, 174-205;
Layton, 12-8, 223-4, 281-302;
Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Paul (Philadelphia, l975) and The Johannine
Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis (Nashville, l975) 23-35, 119;
Rudolph 317-25.
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