Tripartite Tractate

See the comments of Ismo XiunAexhexg, BeyondGnosOcism Myth, Ljestyte, andSociety in the School of Valentinus (New York Columbia University Press, 2008), 178-184, on these stock doxographic debates on the cosmos Dunderberg s primary focus is ona similar passage in the Tripartite Tractate 109,1-5. 

See the similar assessment of Dunderberg, Beyond Gnosticism 181-185, using Tripartite Tractate 109 1-5 as a core text. 

I have used here the critical edition and extensive notes prepared by Harold Attridge and Elaine H. Pagels, Tripartite Tractate, in Harold Attridge, ed.. Nag Hammadi Codex I the Jung Codex) (Leiden Brill, 1985). 

Jesus Christ, and the Tripartite Tractate illustrate the problems, solutions and ultimate limitations of essentially pagan philosophical cosmologies as they underwent a process of re-examination and gradual revision imder the force of emergent Christian theologies. 

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