The Untitled Text, commonly referred to as On the Origin of the World, is a Coptic translation of an underlying Greek text, preserved in its entirety in Tractate II,5 of the Nag Hammadi writings (for introduction, critical edition, and translation, see Layton & Bethge, 1989; for discussion of the manuscript in Codex II and the possibility that the title of the text is in fact Exegesis on the Soul, as per the subscript, see Jenott, 2013, 225). Two additional Coptic …
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Dunning, Benjamin H., “World, On the Origin of the”, in: Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online, General Editor David G. Hunter, Paul J.J. van Geest, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte. Consulted online on 01 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_00003683>
First published online: 2022
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