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| | "Pre-Christian Gnosticism, the New Testament and Nag Hammadi in recent debate" by Edwin M. Yamauchi |
 | | The Gospel of Thomas, which is preserved among the Coptic Nag Hammadi texts, and of which Greek fragments were found at Oxyrhynchus, is believed to have been composed c. |
 | | Impressed by the great number of 'Jewish' elements such as the use of the Old Testament and midrashic interpretations in the Nag Hammadi texts a number of scholars are now maintaining the thesis of a pre-Christian 'Jewish' Gnosticism, that is, a Gnosticism which somehow developed from within Judaism itself. |
 | | J. Robinson, 'The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices', BA, 42 (1979), pp. |
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