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In the Apocryphon of John, a tractate in the Nag Hammadi Library containing the most extensive recounting of the Sethian creation myth, the Barbēlō is described as " the first power, the glory, Barbēlō, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation ".
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Apocryphon and John
In the Apocryphon of John circa 120-180 AD, the Demiurge arrogantly declares that he has made the world by himself:
An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity.
* Apocryphon of John-Interrogatio Johannis, Oratione of St. John, also called " The Secret Supper " ( or, The Book of St. John )
Gnostic exegesis in the Apocryphon of John has Eve seduced by Yaldaboth.
Some of the Gnostic scriptures have been called " Barbeloite " because of her appearance in them, such as the Apocryphon of John and Trimorphic Protennoia.
** The Apocryphon of John
** The Apocryphon of John
** The Apocryphon of John
These texts are Hypostasis of the Archons, On the Origin of the World, and the Apocryphon of John.
Similarly, the Apocryphon of John ( also part of the Nag Hammadi library ) has been useful in studying the prevailing attitudes in the second century, and questions of authorship regarding the Book of revelation, given that it refers to Revelation 1: 19, but is mostly about the post ascension teachings of Jesus in a vision, not a narrative of his life.
* Apocryphon of John ( also called the " Secret Gospel of John ")
Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, also known as the Akhmim Codex, also contains the Apocryphon of John, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, and a summary of the Act of Peter.
Scholars also note that the 5th-century Coptic version of the Gospel is part of the Berlin Codex along with the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ which are typically viewed as Gnostic texts.
The Codex also contained the Apocryphon of John, The Sophia of Jesus Christ, and an epitome of the Act of Peter.
The Secret Book of John ( Apocryphon of John ) is a 2nd-century AD Sethian Gnostic Christian text of secret teachings.
As Acts narrates what happened after the time Jesus ascended to heaven, so the Apocryphon of John begins at the same point but relates how Christ reappeared to John.
The Apocryphon of John begins as Jesus comes to Apostle John who seems lost and confused about the truth of Christianity and its actual legitimacy.
This is the basic opening for all the versions of the Apocryphon of John.
Therefore, the Gnostics with the Apocryphon of John are trying to state that Moses basically got everything wrong and everyone else ( the Christians and Jews ) were being duped by the demiurge and not the true Divine Father.
The Valentinian version is more overtly Christianized than the Apocryphon of John which is called the Sethian version.
Apocryphon and Nag
Cerinthus may be the alleged recipient of the Apocryphon of James ( codex I, text 2 of the Nag Hammadi library ), although the name written is largely illegible.
Two of the versions are very similar and represent one manuscript tradition ; they incorporate a lengthy excerpt from a certain Book of Zoroaster appended to the Apocryphon ( as chapters 15: 29 – 19: 8f ) A shorter version of the Apocryphon found at Nag Hammadi does not contain the interpolation and represents another manuscript tradition.
It should also be noted that in the three Nag Hammadi codices where the Apocryphon of John appears, the text in each case is the first text of the collection.
The Apocryphon, set in the framing device of a revelation delivered by the resurrected Christ to John the son of Zebedee, contains some of the most extensive detailing of classic dualistic Gnostic mythology that has survived ; as one of the principal texts of the Nag Hammadi library, it is an essential text of study for anyone interested in Gnosticism.
* Apocryphon of James, ( Secret Book of James ) in the Nag Hammadi library.
* Apocryphon of John ( Secret Book of John ), in the Nag Hammadi library.
* Williams, Francis E., " The Apocryphon of James ( Introduction and Translation )", from The Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson ( ed.
Apocryphon and most
The Sethian cosmogony was most famously contained in the Apocryphon of John, which describes an unknown God, the same as Paul had done in the Acts of the Apostles 17: 23.
Apocryphon and is
The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres the magicians is a manuscript among the Chester Beatty Papyri No XVI, which has been edited and translated by Albert Pietersma.
He is a co-author of Revelation X: The ' Bob ' Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs.
The below summary of the Apocryphon is derived from Wisse ’ s translation.
Apocryphon of Ezekiel is an apocryphal book, written in the style of the Old Testament, as revelations of Ezekiel.
The Apocryphon of James, also known by the translation of its title-the Secret Book of James, is a pseudonymous text amongst the New Testament apocrypha.
The text also uses gnostic terms, such as referring to " fullness " as a means to salvation, but the doctrines in the Apocryphon of James certainly do not accord with the Valentinian or other developed gnostic cosmologies, so it is not usually counted as a truly gnostic text.
Some have felt that this implies that the relationship of the Apocryphon of James with the canon is through oral tradition, and that the community which wrote it rejected or else did not know Luke-Acts.
Up until this point the Barbelo aeon is spoken of as being constructed of three distinctive realms, but in line 19 the author refers to the Barbelo as having been divded into “ The quintet ”, referring to The Apocryphon of John model of Barbelo.
Like the more familiar Apocryphon of John, to which it is similar, it is thought to be from the mid-second century, and similar in style to the Gospel of John.
John and tractate
A tractate falsely attributed to John Chrysostom argued that Jesus was conceived and crucified on the same day of the year and calculated this as 25 March, a computation also mentioned by Saint Augustine of Hippo.
The editorship of the Law Magazine, or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, which he held from 1828 to 1844, brought him into connection with John Austin, G Cornewall Lewis, and such foreign jurists as Savigny, whose tractate on contemporary legislation and jurisprudence he rendered into English.
John and Nag
John D. Turner, professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska and famed translator and editor of the Nag Hammadi library, stated that the text Plotinus and his students read was Sethian gnosticism which predates Christianity.
On the eve of 7 January 2010, after the Eastern Christmas Mass finished ( which finishes around midnight ), Copts were going out of Mar-Yuhanna ( St. John ) church in Nag Hammadi city when three Muslim men in a car near the church opened fire killing 8 Christians and injuring another 10.
It should be noted that the Nag Hammadi library Sethian text Trimorphic Protennoia identifies Gnosticism as professing Father, Son and feminine wisdom Sophia or as Professor John D. Turner denotes, God the Father, Sophia the Mother, and Logos the Son.
* Book of Thomas the Contender, translated by John D. Turner, a selection from James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, revised edition.
* Gnosticism and Platonism: The Platonizing Sethian texts from Nag Hammadi in their Relation to Later Platonic Literature, John D Turner, ISBN 0-7914-1338-1.
* John D Turner translations of the Sethian Nag Hammadi text and history
* Gnosticism and Platonism: The Platonizing Sethian texts from Nag Hammadi in their Relation to Later Platonic Literature John D Turner, ISBN 0-7914-1338-1.
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