The Gnostic Gospels | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Adam - This person appears in the Old Testament, in the Book of Genesis, in the Garden of Eden. He also appears in a number of the Nag Hammadi texts, such as the Testimony of Truth, as a character in versions of the creation story that vary from the one in Genesis.

al-Qummus Basiliyusi Abd al-Masih - This person was a priest who hid some of the Gnostic books for Muhammad 'Ali al-Samman. He gave one to the history teacher, Raghib.

Marcus Aurelius - This person was emperor of Rome in the second...
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