Allogenes (NHC)

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Allogenes , abbreviated: Allog , is a Gnostic - Setian script from the collection of the Nag Hammadi scripts . It is preserved as the third writing of the eleventh code (NHC XI, 3); it has significant gaps. The manuscript is now in the Coptic Museum in Cairo. It is available as a Coptic translation, but was originally written in Greek . She reports on visions and auditions that were experienced during the ascent into higher spheres. "Allogenes" (Greek: 'Αλλογενής, "foreign origin") is the name for Jesus in this script.

Author, origin, date

The first lines of the work are missing, but the original title of the work is passed down as a subscriptio at the end. Author and place of writing are unknown. The writing time is likely to be in the 3rd century. The only known text witness comes from Nag Hammadi and was copied around the first half of the 4th century.

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Most allogenes are assigned to the genus 'Apocalypse', which consists of two parts of roughly equal length:

  1. In the first part, Allogenes is taught in five conversations by the heavenly revelator Juël about the highest things, namely about the exact structure of the Barbelo Aeon, about the invisible spirit, the “three-force” principle and general knowledge conditions of these things.
  2. In the second part, the trinity of Salamex, Semen and Armê appears as a teacher and mediator of visions. They ensure the enlightenment of the allogene in relation to the Barbelo aeon. They lead him - represented by "forces" - step by step from "bliss" via "life force" to the highest level: "existence". There they give him revelation about the unknowable "One". In doing so, they warn him several times against an excessive urge for knowledge.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Peter Funk, in: Nag Hammadi German. Study edition , Berlin 2007, p. 530.
  2. ↑ Wolf-Peter Funk, in: Nag Hammadi German. Study edition , Berlin 2007, p. 530.

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literature

  • John D. Turner: NHC XI, 3: Allogenes. Transcription and Translation. Notes to the Text and Translation , in: Charles W. Hedrick (Ed.): Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII (NHS 28), Leiden 1990, pp. 192-267.
  • Karen King: Revelation of the Unknowable God, with Text, Translation, and Notes to NHC XI, 3 Allogenes , Santa Rosa 1995.
  • Wolf-Peter Funk, in: Hans-Martin Schenke, Hans-Gebhard Bethge, Ursula Ulrike Kaiser (eds.): Nag Hammadi German. Study edition , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, pp. 529-540. ISBN 978-3-11-018192-0