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Besides Marcion, other important Gnostics were Basilides and Valentinus. Some Gnostic documents are the Gospel of Truth, the Letter to Rheginus, Treatise on the Three Natures, Apocalypse of Adam, the Gospel of Matthias, Gospel of Philip, Acts of Peter, and Acts of Thomas.
They usually recount a version of the Gnostic redeemer myth and refer to Gnosticism as a religion of redemption through knowledge (gnosis). They state that the radically anticosmic dualism of Gnosticism is demontrated by the belief that the world was fashioned by an ignorant and wicked demiurgic creator.y purpose in this book is to consider the ways in which the early Christian polemicist's discourse of orthodoxy and heresy has been inter-twined with twentieth-century scholarship on Gnosticism in order to show where and how that involvement has distorted our analysis of the ancient texts.