Sophia Scriptura

Pistis Sophia

Pistis Sophia

About the English. The work survives only in Coptic (the Askew Codex), which is not a language of this site. The English here is G. R. S. Mead's translation (revised edition, London, 1921), published as it stands. No original-language text is shown.

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About this work

Author
Anonymous
Attribution
pseudonymous · A Gnostic work presenting dialogues of the risen Jesus with his disciples (Mary Magdalene above all); the author is unknown. The Askew Codex combines several writings (books 1–3 and a separate fourth part).
Standing
This work stood outside the church of its own time, and no later tradition receives it. A Gnostic book; the church of its time knew such books only to reject them, and no later tradition receives it.
Date
3rd century (disputed) · The Coptic is a translation of Greek originals usually dated to the second half of the third century; the manuscript is of the fourth century or later.
Written at
Egypt (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
Mead's chapter numbers 1–148 (those of Schmidt's German translation).
SBL abbreviation
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Text from
G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany, new and completely revised edition (London: John M. Watkins, 1921), English translation from the Coptic (Printed translation in the public domain)
Critical editions
C. Schmidt and V. MacDermot, Pistis Sophia, NHS 9 (Leiden, 1978) (cited, not reproduced)