Editing Gnostic Text

The Gnostic texts are the scriptures that were written and used by Gnostic Christians in late antiquity (the first few centuries AD/CE). Those groups also used some of the texts that would later make their way into the official New Testament, such as the writings attributed to the apostles Paul and John, but the scriptures that we today call “Gnostic texts” are the ones that were only used by the Gnostics and were written by them to articulate a distinctively Gnostic perspective on the world and salvation. These texts are literary expressions of a remarkable spiritual vision that continues to inspire people today, almost two millennia after they were written.