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).
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 the early Christian church and lost for 1700 years. The Gospel of Judas was mentioned and summarized by the Church Father Irenaeus of Lyons in his work Against Heresies.[1] This would make the Gospel of Judas older than the codex.
CodexTchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic papyrus, which contains early Christian gnostic texts from approximately 300 AD: the Letter of Peter to Philip...
was named CodexTchacos by its penultimate owner, antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, in honor of her father, Dimaratos Tchacos. The antiquities...
in the Bodmer Library, Geneva, while the fullest is a 10th-century Greek codex in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. The first widely printed edition (as...
The Berlin Codex (also known as the Akhmim Codex and the Berlin Gnostic Codex, BG), given the accession number Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, is a Coptic manuscript...
an ancient Coptic Codex acquired by Dr. Carl Reinhardt in Cairo in 1896. This manuscript (identified as the "Berlin Gnostic Codex" or BG 8502) was used...
syncretic material in their 4th-century translations. The Gospel of Judas (CodexTchacos, c. 300; mentioned by Irenaeus, c. 180) Nag Hammadi library: The Apocalypse...
of the Askew Codex by M. G. Schwartze were published in 1851. Although discovered in 1896, the Coptic Berlin Codex (a.k.a. the Akhmim Codex) was not 'rediscovered'...
New Testament apocrypha First page of the Gospel of Judas (Page 33 of CodexTchacos) Apostolic Fathers 1 Clement 2 Clement Epistles of Ignatius Polycarp...
Egyptian desert at the end of the 4th century. The text was bound in the same codex that contained the better-known Gospel of Thomas. From the mix of aphorisms...
Faith of Sophia", or "The Loyalty of Sophia". Both the Berlin Codex and a papyrus codex at Nag Hammadi have an earlier, simpler Sophia wherein the transfigured...
majority of the text has survived only in the Latin translation of the Codex Vercellensis, under the title Actus Petri cum Simone ("Act of Peter with...
Manuscripts". 5 February 2016. MS 2: Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, codex orientalis 387 [32], fols. 2r–48v (from the year 1299 AD) "Oxford, Bodleian...
New Testament apocrypha First page of the Gospel of Judas (Page 33 of CodexTchacos) Apostolic Fathers 1 Clement 2 Clement Epistles of Ignatius Polycarp...
discovered as the fourth tractate in the CodexTchacos. In this text, Allogenes resists temptation and ascends. CodexTchacos, also written in Coptic, is likely...
text "On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst". CodexTchacos, 4th century, contains the Gospel of Judas, the First Apocalypse of...
the third tractate of Codex V in the Nag Hammadi library. Additional copies were later found in Coptic as part of the CodexTchacos and in Greek among the...
time. It was found among the texts in the Nag Hammadi library, in Codex II and Codex XIII, immediately following the Reality of the Rulers. There are many...
Pataria Novgorodians - the owners of the Novgorod Codex; it is likely that the owners of the codex were dualistic like the Bogomils Paulicianism (However...
birthday present for Jung; for this reason, this codex is typically known as the Jung Codex, being Codex I in the collection. Jung's death in 1961 resulted...
text discovered in 1896 in a fifth-century papyrus codex written in Sahidic Coptic. This Berlin Codex was purchased in Cairo by German diplomat Carl Reinhardt...
additional copy of the text, also written in Coptic, was later found in CodexTchacos. The writing begins as an epistle from Peter to Philip the Apostle,...
amongst Christians in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th centuries. It is found in the Codex Sinaiticus. The Muratorian Fragment identifies the author of The Shepherd...
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