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The Bruce Codex

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The Bruce Codex is a set of Coptic Gnostic manuscripts acquired by James Bruce in the late 18th century and later made available to European scholars.

The codex contains diverse Gnostic works that contributed significantly to early modern understanding of Gnostic traditions and literature.

Its discovery added rare primary texts to the corpus that informed scholarship on Gnosticism, early Christian heterodoxy, and Egyptian Christian practices.

The codex's contents have been studied, translated, and analyzed by scholars of religion, shedding light on theological diversity in late antiquity.

It remains a valuable resource for understanding alternative Christianities and the manuscript transmission of Gnostic writings.

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as the collection of Gnostic texts James Bruce brought back, alongside the Book of Enoch.
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