Estimated Range of Dating: 120-180 A.D.
Chronological List of Early Christian Writings
Online Text for Trimorphic Protennoia
English Translation by John D. Turner
Online Resources for Trimorphic Protennoia
Offline Resources for Trimorphic Protennoia
James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library in English (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins 1990), pp. 511-522.
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Information on Trimorphic Protennoia
John D. Turner writes (The Nag Hammadi Library in English, pp. 511-522): “Trimorphic Protennoia (‘The Three-formed [Divine] First Thought’) is, in its form, a Barbeloite treatise which has undergone both Sethian and Christian revisions. It is roughly contemporaneous with The Apocryphon of John (mid-second century C.E.), which it resembles in certain interesting ways, and is distinguished by a number of striking parallels to the Fourth Gospel and especially its prologue.”