Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Nag Hammadi friends: If you had to choose one “gnostic” text to read in a grad seminar on religious thinkers in antiquity, which would you choose and why? Bonus if it comes with an article that is readable for students with no Coptic and little experience with the corpus. 831
Jaeda the Fabulous @jaedarising.bsky.social · 18/12/2025 Secret Book of John has a lot going on in it to talk about and perhaps be easier to make connections with other readings than a work like say Treatise on the Resurrection which is more focused on just one issue. 020
Kristine Toft Rosland @kristinerosland.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I want to say Apocryphon of John, but the whole theogony part is both confusing and boring if you're not very into the philosopy of it. 040
Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 18/12/2025The Gospel of Truth and a chapter of Philip Tite's book. 000
Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I am not a Nag Hammadi friend, but I would choose Hymn of the Pearl 260
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025My instinct would be Apocryphon of John + David Litwa’s ZAC article “The God ‘Human’ and Human Gods: Models of Deification in Irenaeus and the Apocryphon of John” 070
Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Gospel of Mary! Sarah Parkhouse's recent book is excellent. As is the intro volume of Karen King (though a bit older at this point). Lots of fun stuff to talk about in terms of matter/materiality, soul and ascent stuff, and, of course, gender. 040
Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I may be, like, the second person since George McRae to like the Apocalypse of Adam, but it's pretty legible on first read IMO, and you could pair it with Dylan Burns' chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature. on NH apocalypses 020