Published in 1851, this edition of an important second-century
Gnostic work presents the Coptic text derived from codices held in
the British Museum and originally ascribed to the authorship of a
certain Valentinus. These manuscript sources were scrutinised and
translated into Latin by the German scholar Moeritz Gotthilf
Schwartze (1802-48) at the behest of the king of Prussia, but he
died before the book could be completed. The task of preparing
Schwartze's work for publication fell to Julius Heinrich Petermann
(1801-76), professor of oriental literature at the University of
Berlin. The arcane and difficult text describes esoteric Gnostic
teachings which - just as in the traditional Gospels - are
delivered by Jesus to his disciples. At the beginning, he is said
to have spent eleven years after the resurrection teaching them
this mysterious higher knowledge. Both the annotated Coptic text
and Schwartze's Latin translation are frequently interspersed with
Greek.
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