Before Valentinus : the Gnostics of Irenaeus / by Einar Thomassen.

"This book offers the first detailed commentary on the Gnostic treatises reported by Irenaeus in Adversus Haereses 1.29-30. It is argued that these texts represent the earliest tangible layer of the Gnostic literary tradition and served as sources for the Apocryphon of John and other later work...

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Main Author:	Thomassen, Einar (Author)
Other title:	Gnostics of Irenaeus
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Series:	Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 106.
Subjects:	Irenaeus, > Saint, Bishop of Lyon. Gnosticism. Gnosticisme.