RT Book
T1 Introduction (intro_II_XXXIII)
T2 BrillOnline Reference Works
T2 Coptic Gnostic Library
A2 Robinson, James M.
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill Academic Publishers
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1690916524
AB The four copies of The Apocryphon of John (AJ) presented in this edition in synoptic form represent two independent Coptic translations from the original Greek of a shorter version of AJ, and two copies of a Coptic translation of a longer version of the same tractate. This multiple attestation allows us observe this important Christian-Gnostic text through several stages of redaction and transmission. The relationship between the shorter and longer version and the transmission history as reflected in the four Coptic texts appear to be as follows
K1 Nag Hammadi Codices
K1 Gnostic literature
DO 10.1163/9789004228900_cgl_aintro_II_XXXIII