Note 15 — INTRODUCTION

Among the earlier writers, I should mention Joh. Nap. Grüber, who, in an inaugural Thesis read before the Faculty of the University of Würzburg in 1864, on the Ophite heresy, dealt at great length with the Pistis Sophia. I have worked through this, however, without deriving from it any new ideas which could be substantiated by later information. Among more recent writers, I may also mention the late Mr. P. D. Scott-Moncrieff’s Paganism and Christianity in Egypt (1913), which contains many useful hints and might, but for the writer’s premature death, have been expanded into a useful text-book.