Books of Jeu
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The Books of Jeu are gnostic manuscripts.
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[edit] Efforts at dating
The books are estimated as written during a period spanning 100 A.D to 300 A.D (approximately), in the time of the Roman rule of Egypt.[1] perhaps toward the latter end of this period.[2]
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It seems probable that the Gnostic texts were written intended for the involvement of initiatory rituals. [3]
The writings are in two books and are stated as taken from the speech of Jesus (of Nazereth) to a unknown number of disciples at a time after the former's rising from the dead . [2]
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The books are a part of the Bruce Codex (located within the Bodleian Library), and were originally written in the Coptic language. [4]
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Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex (Nag Hammadi Studies) by Violet MacDermot (translator)(1978) retrieved 22/10/2011
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- ^ navigation:goto MS Bruce @ Bodleian Library home page:Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts retrieved at 17:45 21/10/2011
- ^ a b "Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt". http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c8m0eAMQ34sC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=H.-C.+Puech+the+books+of+Jeu&source=bl&ots=qBaD8MDI0R&sig=AVohScT5U57ierHuvBMHOGqfv58&hl=en&ei=RMOhTobuN4ei8QP-nODcBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 21/10/2011. (text written by Birger A. Pearson) published (2004) ISBN 0567026108
- ^ *Online text of the 1st book of Jeu retrieved 17:02, 2nd of May 2005
- ^ The Gnostic Society Library citing Carl Schmidt, The Books of JEU and The Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex (Brill Archive, 1978). retrieved 17:02, 2 May 2005 ISBN 9004057544
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