The Pistis Sophia and Coptic post-resurrection revelation

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Pistis Sophia is a long Coptic revelatory dialogue in which the risen Jesus teaches disciples, including Mary Magdalene, about cosmology, repentance, and the heavenly realms. Although the surviving Askew Codex entered European collections earlier, new translations and scholarship during this period kept it active in studies of Egyptian Christianity, Gnostic literature, and visionary ascent. The text is useful for comparing post-resurrection revelation with canonical gospel forms. Its composition, sources, and relationship to different Gnostic systems remain debated, and the surviving manuscript is not an eyewitness record.