[German Version]

(NHC XIII, 1), preserved only in a Coptic translation, probably derives from an early phase of Gnostic Sethianism; its Sitz im Leben was probably the cult or more specifically baptismal ¶ practice. It contains three revelatory discourses devoted to important aspects of the drama of the fall and redemption (Gnosis). In these hymnic discourses, responses of the Gnostic community are interwoven with textual passages on familiar cosmological, eschatological, and soteriological topoi. The figure of Protennoia is the…