David Trobisch
Throckmorton- Hayes Professor of New Testament Language and Literature
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Introducing the Gospel of Mary

Literature

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Robert Miller, ed. The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version (Sonoma: Polebridge Press, 1992).

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Karen King, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Sonoma: Polebridge Press, 2003).

Gospel of Mary

Three fragments of the Gospel of Mary are known today: two third-century fragments (P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus 3525)  and the longest and most important fragment, a fifth-century Coptic version (Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052,1) first published in 1955.

Editions of the Greek text:

bulletPapyrus Oxyrhynchus 3525: Bowman, A.K., R.A. Coles, E. Lobel, T.S. Pattie, J.L. Rowlandson, H.M. Cockle, E.W. Handley, H. Maehler, J.R. Rea, T.C. Skeat, W.E.H. Cockle, M.W. Haslam, P.J. Parsons, C.H. Roberts, J.D. Thomas, E.G. Turner, and J.E.G. Whitehorne, eds. "3525. Gospel of Mary"  The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 50 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1983) 12-14.
bulletPapyrus Rylands 463: Roberts, C.H., ed. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, 3 (Manchester: 1938).

Edition of the Coptic text:

bulletBerolinensis Gnosticus 8052,1: Till, Walter, ed. Die gnostischen Schriften des koptischen Papyrus Berolinensis 8502.  2nd edition, H.-M. Schenke, ed. (Berlin, 1972); Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 60.

For more information on Gnostic gospels found at Nag Hammadi:

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Bentley Layton, ed. The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation With Annotations (Garden City: Doubleday, 1987).

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Information on non-canonical gospels

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