The Naassene Fragment is a fragmentary text that survives only in a quotation in the third century book Refutation of All Heresies (5.7.2-9) by Hippolytus of Rome. According to Hippolytus, the Naassenes (from Hebrew nachash, snake) were a Gnostic Ophite sect. Hippolytus condemns the group as in error, and offers a fragment of their writings, calling it a hymn or psalm used by them. The fragment is considered part of the New Testament apocryphal tradition.
The fragment is written, like the rest of Hippolytus's work, in Koine Greek. Except for the first line, the work's poetic meter is in anapests, the most common form of verse in the Greek-speaking parts of the Roman Empire.[1]
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The NaasseneFragment is a fragmentary text that survives only in a quotation in the third century book Refutation of All Heresies (5.7.2-9) by Hippolytus...
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