Early Christian Writings (Including Gnostics & Apocrypha)

Proceed with caution. While many Apocrypha were removed and censored by the deep church, many gnostic texts may well be false gospels.

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30-60	Passion Narrative
40-80	Lost Sayings Gospel Q
50-60	1 Thessalonians
50-60	Philippians
50-60	Galatians
50-60	1 Corinthians
50-60	2 Corinthians
50-60	Romans
50-60	Philemon
50-80	Colossians
50-90	Signs Gospel
50-95	Book of Hebrews
50-120	Didache
50-140	Gospel of Thomas
50-140	Oxyrhynchus 1224 Gospel
50-150	Apocalypse of Adam
50-150	Eugnostos the Blessed
50-200	Sophia of Jesus Christ
65-80	Gospel of Mark
70-100	Epistle of James
70-120	Egerton Gospel
70-160	Gospel of Peter
70-160	Secret Mark
70-200	Fayyum Fragment
70-200	Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
73-200	Mara Bar Serapion
80-100	2 Thessalonians
80-100	Ephesians
80-100	Gospel of Matthew
80-110	1 Peter
80-120	Epistle of Barnabas
80-130	Gospel of Luke
80-130	Acts of the Apostles
80-140	1 Clement
80-150	Gospel of the Egyptians
80-150	Gospel of the Hebrews
80-250	Christian Sibyllines
90-95	Revelation
90-120	Gospel of John
90-120	1 John
90-120	2 John
90-120	3 John
90-120	Epistle of Jude
93	Flavius Josephus
100-150	1 Timothy
100-150	2 Timothy
100-150	Titus
100-150	Apocalypse of Peter
100-150	Secret Book of James
100-150	Preaching of Peter
100-160	Gospel of the Ebionites
100-160	Gospel of the Nazoreans
100-160	Shepherd of Hermas
100-160	2 Peter
100-200	Odes of Solomon
100-200	Gospel of Eve
100-230	Thunder, Perfect Mind
101-220	Book of Elchasai
105-115	Ignatius of Antioch
110-140	Polycarp to the Philippians
110-140	Papias
110-160	Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel
110-160	Traditions of Matthias
111-112	Pliny the Younger
115	Suetonius
115	Tacitus
120-130	Quadratus of Athens
120-130	Apology of Aristides
120-140	Basilides
120-140	Naassene Fragment
120-160	Valentinus
120-180	Apocryphon of John
120-180	Gospel of Mary
120-180	Dialogue of the Savior
120-180	Gospel of the Savior
120-180	2nd Apocalypse of James
120-180	Trimorphic Protennoia
120-180	Gospel of Perfection
120-200	Genna Marias
130-140	Marcion
130-150	Aristo of Pella
130-160	Epiphanes On Righteousness
130-160	Ophite Diagrams
130-160	2 Clement
130-170	Gospel of Judas
130-200	Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus
140-150	Epistula Apostolorum
140-160	Ptolemy
140-160	Isidore
140-170	Fronto
140-170	Infancy Gospel of James
140-170	Infancy Gospel of Thomas
140-180	Gospel of Truth
150-160	Martyrdom of Polycarp
150-160	Justin Martyr
150-180	Excerpts of Theodotus
150-180	Heracleon
150-200	Ascension of Isaiah
150-200	Interpretation of Knowledge
150-200	Testimony of Truth
150-200	Acts of Peter
150-200	Acts of John
150-200	Acts of Paul
150-200	Acts of Andrew
150-225	Acts of Peter and the Twelve
150-225	Book of Thomas the Contender
150-250	Paraphrase of Shem
150-250	Fifth and Sixth Books of Esra
150-300	Authoritative Teaching
150-300	Coptic Apocalypse of Paul
150-300	Prayer of the Apostle Paul
150-300	Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
150-300	Melchizedek
150-350	Preaching of Paul
150-350	Epistle to the Laodiceans
150-350	Questions of Mary
150-350	Allogenes, the Stranger
150-350	Hypsiphrone
150-350	Valentinian Exposition
150-350	Act of Peter
150-360	Concept of Our Great Power
150-400	Acts of Pilate
150-400	Anti-Marcionite Prologues
150-400	Dialogue Between John and Jesus
160-170	Tatian’s Address to the Greeks
160-180	Claudius Apollinaris
160-180	Apelles
160-180	Julius Cassianus
160-250	Octavius of Minucius Felix
161-180	Acts of Carpus
165-175	Melito of Sardis
165-175	Hegesippus
165-175	Dionysius of Corinth
165-175	Lucian of Samosata
167	Marcus Aurelius
170-175	Diatessaron
170-200	Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony
170-200	Muratorian Canon
170-200	Treatise on the Resurrection
170-220	Letter of Peter to Philip
170-230	Thought of Norea
175-180	Athenagoras of Athens
175-185	Irenaeus of Lyons
175-185	Rhodon
175-185	Theophilus of Caesarea
175-190	Galen
178	Celsus
178	Letter from Vienna and Lyons
180	Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs
180-185	Theophilus of Antioch
180-185	Acts of Apollonius
180-220	Bardesanes
180-220	Kerygmata Petrou
180-230	Hippolytus of Rome
180-230	Sentences of Sextus
180-250	1st Apocalypse of James
180-250	Gospel of Philip
182-202	Clement of Alexandria
185-195	Maximus of Jerusalem
185-195	Polycrates of Ephesus
188-217	Talmud
189-199	Victor I
190-210	Pantaenus
190-230	Second Discourse of Great Seth
193	Anonymous Anti-Montanist
193-216	Inscription of Abercius
197-220	Tertullian
200-210	Serapion of Antioch
200-210	Apollonius
200-220	Caius
200-220	Philostratus
200-225	Acts of Thomas
200-230	Ammonius of Alexandria
200-230	Zostrianos
200-230	Three Steles of Seth
200-230	Exegesis on the Soul
200-250	Didascalia
200-250	Books of Jeu
200-300	Pistis Sophia
200-300	Tripartite Tractate
200-300	Hypostasis of the Archons
200-300	Prayer of Thanksgiving
200-300	Coptic Apocalypse of Peter
200-330	Apostolic Church Order
200-350	Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit
200-450	Monarchian Prologues
203	Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas
203-250	Origen
210-245	Lucian of Antioch
217-222	Callistus
230-265	Dionysius of Alexandria
230-268	Firmilian of Caesarea
240-260	Commodian
246-258	Cyprian
250-274	Gospel of Mani
250-300	Teachings of Silvanus
250-300	Excerpt from the Perfect Discourse
250-350	Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah
250-400	Apocalypse of Paul
251-253	Pope Cornelius
251-258	Novatian
254-257	Pope Stephen
259-268	Dionysius of Rome
260-280	Theognostus
265-282	Gregory Thaumaturgus
269-274	Pope Felix
270-310	Victorinus of Pettau
270-312	Methodius
270-330	Marsanes
270-330	On the Origin of the World
270-350	De Recta in Deum Fide
280-300	Hesychius
280-310	Pierius
280-310	Pamphilus of Caesarea
297-310	Arnobius of Sicca
300-311	Peter of Alexandria
300-320	Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
300-340	Eusebius of Caesarea
300-350	Manichean Acts of Leucius Charinus
300-390	Letters of Paul and Seneca
300-400	Apocalypse of Thomas
300-400	Freer Logion
300-600	Gospel of Gamaliel
303-316	Lactantius
310-334	Reticius of Autun
320-380	Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions