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Gnosticism Manichaenism St. Shenouda Coptic Library AuthorName_Year Title Publisher Topic Name: GNOSTIC, MANIC ATTRIDGE, HAROLD W.. NAG HAMMADI CODEX I (THE JUNG CODEX): INTRODUCTIONS, TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, INDICES LEIDEN: E. J. BRILL. 1985. ATTRIDGE, HAROLD W.. NAG HAMMADI CODEX I (THE JUNG CODEX): NOTES LEIDEN: E. J. BRILL. 1985. BARC, BERNARD & WOLF- LE LIVRE DES SECRETS DE JEAN RECENSION BREVE (NH III, 1 ET BG, 2) PETER FUNK. 2012. BARNS, J. W. B., G. M. NAG HAMMADI CODICES: GREEK AND COPTIC PAPYRI FROM THE CARTONNAGE OF THE COVERS LEIDEN: E. J. BRILL. BROWNE, & J. C. SHELTON. 1981. BARNSTONE, WILLIS, & THE GNOSTIC BIBLE BOSTON: SHAMBHALA. MAR. 2003. BOHLIG, ALEXANDER & DIE KOPTISCH-GNOSTISCHE SCHRIFT OHNE TITEL AUS CODEX II VON NAG HAMMADI IM BERLIN: AKADEMIE VERLAG. PAHOR LABIB. 1962. KOPTISCHEN MUSEUM ZU ALT-KAIRO BOHLIG, ALEXANDER, NAG HAMMADI CODICES III, 2 AND IV, 2: THE GOSPEL OF THE EGYPTIANS (THE HOLY BOOK OF THE LEIDEN: E. J. BRILL. FREDERIK WISSE, & PAHOR GREAT INVISIBLE SPIRIT) LABIB. 1975. BOHLIG, ALEXANDER. 2013. DIE BIBEL BEI DEN MANICHAERN UND VERWANDTE STUDIEN BOSTON: BRILL. BRUCE, JAMES. n.d.. TEXTS FROM THE BRUCE CODEX SAN BERNARDINO, CA: THEOPHANIA PUBLISHING. CORRIGAN, KEVIN & GNOSTICISM, PLATONISM AND THE LATE ANCIENT WORLD. ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOHN D. BOSTON: BRILL. TUOMAS RASIMUS, TURNER EDITORS. 2013. DECONICK, APRIL & PRACTICING GNOSIS. RITUAL, MAGIC, THEURGY AND LITURGY IN NAG HAMMADI, MANICHAEAN BOSTON: BRILL. GREGORY SHAW, J. AND OTHER ANCIENT LITERATURE TURNER, EDITORS. 2013. EMMEL, STEPHEN. 1984. NAG HAMMADI CODEX III,5: THE DIALOGUE OF THE SAVIOR LEIDEN: E. J. BRILL. EVANS, CRAIG A., ROBERT NAG HAMMADI TEXTS AND THE BIBLE: A SYNOPSIS AND INDEX LEIDEN: E. J. BRILL. L. WEBB, & R. A. WIEBE. 1993. EVANS, ERIN. 2015. THE BOOKS OF JEU AND THE PISTIS SOPHIA AS HANDBOOKS TO ETERNITY BOSTON: BRILL. FILORAMO, GIOVANNI. 1990. 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