Classical Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments
This section includes documents — generally classed by scholars as Gnostic — that were known prior to the Nag Hammadi Library discovery. Modern understanding of Gnosticism was grounded upon these documents (many of which became available only in the last half of the nineteenth century) and upon the comments of the early Christian "patristic heresiologists" until the discovery of the Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi in 1945. The Nag Hammadi Library texts have helped put all of these previously know documents into a more complete context.
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