On the Origin of the World: A Reader's Map to the Most Detailed Gnostic Cosmology
The longest creation story in the Nag Hammadi library has no name. The scribes who copied it never gave it a title, so scholars named it after its subject, and some older books just call it “Untitled Work.” Marvin Meyer, who translated it for The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, calls that label unfortunate. I agree with him, because it undersells a text that argues like a lawyer and cites books nobody has seen in sixteen centuries. ...