Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Coptic (language)

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Sayings of the Desert Fathers
(late 4th century CE)

Fresco of the Desert Fathers in a monastery near their former dwellings

Just the Facts:

Name: Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Known as: Apophthegmata Patrum
Date: late 4th century CE
Place: Egypt
Language: Greek (originally Coptic)
What it is: Middle Eastern collection of stories about the first Christian monks of Egypt

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Anthony the Great
(251-256)

by Piero di Cosimo

Just the Facts:

Name: Anthony the Great
Also known as: Anthony of Egypt
Birth: Unknown Date, 251, Heracleopolis Magna, Egypt
Death: January 17, 356, Egypt
Language: Coptic
Who he was: Coptic-speaking Egyptian hermit and Church Father known for his Letters

Nag Hammadi Texts
(3rd-4th centuries CE)

A text from Nag Hammadi

Just the Facts:

Name: Nag Hammadi Texts
Date: 3rd-4th centuries CE
Place: Egypt
Language: Coptic
What they are: Middle Eastern collection of Gnostic texts (includes the Gospel of Thomas)

New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
(c. 100-300)

Jesus is betrayed by a kiss from Judas,
the purported author of the pseudepigraphal
book The Gospel of Judas

Just the Facts:

Name: New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Dates: c. 100-300
Place: Middle East
Language: Greek, Coptic, Aramaic, etc.
What they are: Middle Eastern extra-Biblical books; accounts of Jesus and the early Church not included in the Bible; some were in fact "shortlisted" when the Canon was fixed.
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
(c. 80)

Detail of Rubens's Martyrdom of St. Thomas,
alleged but unlikely author of this "gospel"

Just the Facts:

Name: The Gospel of Thomas
Date: around 80 CE
Language: Coptic
What it is: Middle Eastern apocryphal New Testament book made up of sayings of Jesus, some with a decidedly Gnostic flavor

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Sayings of the Desert Fathers(late 4th century CE)

Anthony the Great(251-256)

Nag Hammadi Texts(3rd-4th centuries CE)

New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha(c. 100-300)

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas(c. 80)

Sayings of the Desert Fathers
(late 4th century CE)

Anthony the Great
(251-256)

Nag Hammadi Texts
(3rd-4th centuries CE)

New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
(c. 100-300)

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
(c. 80)