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The First Book of Ieou is an ancient Christian text that survives in Coptic, the language of Egypt. Scholars think it was first composed in Greek, perhaps as early as the second century, and that the surviving manuscript was copied in the third or fourth century. The author is unknown. It belongs to the Gnostic stream of early Christianity, whose followers sought saving knowledge about the soul and the cosmos.
The book presents itself as a talk between the living Jesus and his apostles. It is not a gospel of parables. It is a revelation about the unseen order of heaven, about a being named Ieou who is called the true God, and about the treasuries of light that fill the heavens. You will hear what the text says, how it is arranged, and how its first readers used it. Let us begin with the opening teaching, in which Jesus speaks of crucifying the world.
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- 1A Coptic book of Gnostic revelationFree
- 2Crucify the world and bring heaven down
- 3Ieou, the true God, begins to emanate
- 4Twelve heads and three watchers
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A Coptic book of Gnostic revelation
The book comes from Roman Egypt. Its manuscript is in Coptic and shows signs of repeated copying over generations. It is part of a wider body of Coptic Gnostic writing that modern scholars have only gradually recovered. Some early Christian groups valued such books as secret teaching that Jesus gave to his closest followers.
The text calls itself the teaching in which the whole of knowledge dwells. Its readers were Gnostics, a word taken from the Greek for knowledge. For them, salvation came through knowing where the soul came from and how it returns to the light. Moral effort mattered, but knowledge and the right words mattered most.
The writing is not a single smooth story. It opens with short dialogues and then turns to descriptions of divine beings and their places. Some passages seem to depend on diagrams and names that a reader would need beside the page. That is why the book is often called a manual as well as a revelation.
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What is the First Book of Ieou about?
It is a dialogue in which the living Jesus teaches his apostles. He speaks of crucifying the world, then describes Ieou, the true God, and the treasuries of light that his emanations fill, with ranks of twelve heads and three watchers.
Who is Ieou in this text?
Ieou, also spelled Jeu, is called the true God. He is an emanation of the Father, set as head over the treasuries, and he brings forth further emanations who also bear the name Jeu.
What does Gnostic mean?
The word comes from the Greek gnosis, meaning knowledge. Gnostic Christians held that salvation came through knowing the soul's divine origin and the way back to the light, and they valued secret teachings attributed to Jesus.
When and in what language was it written?
It survives in Coptic and was copied in the third or fourth century. Scholars think it was first composed in Greek, perhaps as early as the second century. The author is unknown.
Why is it not in the Bible?
Most churches did not include Gnostic books in their canon, since their view of the creator, the cosmos and salvation differed from the teaching those churches held. Gnostic groups valued this book, and historians study it today.