CODEX ISO · RESEARCH GUIDES
Start with the evidence.
Clear introductions to what survives, which manuscripts matter and where interpretation begins.The Gospel of Thomas: 114 Sayings, Manuscripts and What Actually Survives
A source-aware guide to the Gospel of Thomas: its 114 sayings, Nag Hammadi Codex II, the Oxyrhynchus fragments and the questions scholars still dispute.
Read guide and edition →02 · Gospel of Mary guideThe Gospel of Mary: Missing Pages, Surviving Manuscripts and Mary’s Disputed Authority
What survives of the Gospel of Mary, which pages are missing, and what the Coptic and Greek witnesses actually show.
Read guide and edition →03 · Gospel of Philip guideThe Gospel of Philip: A Guide to the Nag Hammadi Text, Symbols and Surviving Manuscript
A clear guide to the Gospel of Philip, its Coptic manuscript, unusual literary form and frequently misunderstood symbolic language.
Read guide and edition →04 · Didache guideThe Didache: Date, Contents and the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
A chapter-by-chapter guide to the Didache, its manuscript witness, debated date, Two Ways teaching, baptism, fasting, Eucharist and community order.
Read guide and edition →05 · Nag Hammadi Codex VII,1 · Manuscripts · Structure · Interpretation vs. evidenceThe Paraphrase of Shem: What Survives, Where It Sits in Codex VII, and How to Read Its Manuscript Evidence
A people-first guide to The Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1): what the lone surviving manuscript witness is, how the tractate is bounded inside Nag Hammadi Codex VII, what kinds of damage/readings you should expect, and what scholars mean (and do not mean) when they describe its theology and structure.
Read guide and edition →06 · Codex II, tractate 6 (NHC II,6) · Coptic witness · pages 127–137The Exegesis on the Soul: What Survives, Where It Sits in Codex II, and How to Read Its Allegory
A people-first guide to the Nag Hammadi tractate known as The Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II,6): its sole manuscript witness, what the pages actually preserve, how the work builds its repentance-and-restoration allegory from biblical citations, and what scholars dispute about its theology and setting.
Read guide and edition →07 · Codex ISO Research Guide · Edition 008The Hypostasis of the Archons: What Survives, Where It Sits in Codex II, and How to Read Its Manuscript Evidence
A people-first research guide to The Hypostasis of the Archons (a.k.a. The Reality/Substance of the Rulers): its single Coptic manuscript witness in Nag Hammadi Codex II, how the page/line references work, what the text actually contains, and which claims are established versus debated.
Read guide and edition →08 · Codex ISO Research Guide · Manuscript Evidence FirstThe Gospel of Truth: What Survives, Where It’s Preserved, and What We Can (and Can’t) Say About Authorship
A manuscript-first guide to the Gospel of Truth: its principal Coptic witness in Nag Hammadi Codex I (pages 16–43), the fragmentary second Coptic version in Codex XII, and what patristic testimony can responsibly add (and cannot prove) about attribution and use.
Read guide and edition →09 · Codex ISO Research GuideThe Epistle of Barnabas: Manuscripts, What Actually Survives, and How to Read Its Argument
A people-first guide to the Epistle of Barnabas focusing on primary manuscript evidence (especially Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Hierosolymitanus), what parts of the text survive, and how its scriptural interpretation works—without overclaiming about canon or councils.
Read guide and edition →10 · Gnostic Gospels · Manuscript GuideThunder, Perfect Mind: What Survives, Where It’s Preserved, and How to Read Its Paradoxical “I”
A people-first guide to Thunder, Perfect Mind (NHC VI,2): what the manuscript actually is, what “complete surviving text” means, and how scholars interpret the poem’s shifting first-person voice and paradoxes—without turning uncertainty into conspiracy.
Read guide and edition →11 · Codex ISO · Research GuideThe Dialogue of the Savior: Manuscript Evidence, Major Themes, and How to Read Its Gaps
A people-first guide to The Dialogue of the Savior (NHC III,5): what actually survives, what the single Coptic witness looks like, how scholars describe its genre and sources, and how to interpret its most-cited ascetic sayings without overclaiming beyond the manuscript.
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