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I revised first sentence to reflect the simple truth that sophia means wisdom in any form of Greek; perhaps more tendentious (though obviously *I* think it's true) is that in a Gnostic context it means 'esoteric wisdom'. I also removed the strange italics on the paragraph at the bottom of the page and qualified the dating of the Gnostic texts. Many, if not most scholars believe that the Gnostic texts are significantly later than the late first century. None of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts are earlier than the 3rd century, so they are not exactly great evidence of earliness. They are in Coptic, which implies (to some scholars) that if they were written in Greek there must have been some lag time, but no mainstream scholar of New Testament text studies puts the first 2 gospels later than 90 (that is, late 1st century). Some actually put them earlier than that. Elaine Pagels is FAR from the only or first specialist in Early Christianity. --MichaelTinkler |
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