Codex Tchacos [SEP] material used
Codex Tchacos
The Codex Tchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic papyrus, which contains early Christian gnostic texts from approximately 300 AD: the Letter of Peter to Philip, the First Apocalypse of James, the Gospel of Judas, and a fragment of the Book of Allogenes (or the Book of the Stranger, this is different from the previously known Nag Hammadi text Allogenes).
The Codex Tchacos is important, because it contains the first known surviving copy of the Gospel of Judas, a text that was rejected as heresy by
is impossible to exclude the presence of later syncretic material in their 4th-century translations.
- The Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos, c. 300; mentioned by Irenaeus, c. 180)
- Nag Hammadi library:
- The Apocalypse of Adam
- The Apocryphon of John (mentioned by Irenaeus, c. 180)
- The Thought of Norea
- The Trimorphic Protennoia (Codex XIII)
- "The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit" (also known as the "Coptic Gospel of the