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The Gospel of Mary

Mark M. Mattison

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Surviving Coptic text of Berlin Codex 8502,1; missing pages explicitly marked

Canon check, 2026-10-26: not in the Protestant, Catholic or Eastern Orthodox lists on the Scriptures shelf; not in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s 81-book list (https://ethiopianorthodox.org/english/canonical/books.html) or in R. W. Cowley, “The Biblical Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today,” Ostkirchliche Studien 23 (1974) 318–323; and not among the additional books in the Armenian canon lists tabulated from M. E. Stone’s Harvard Theological Review studies (https://islamic-awareness.org/bible/text/canon/armenianlist).

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Edition / translator
Mark M. Mattison, public-domain translation from Coptic, as retrieved 2026-09-14.
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  • Berlin Codex 8502,1; pages 1–6 and 11–14 missing
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Source SHA-256: 8a2bae6a03b085d6f97171b9e44860e833425287bb87435a49a46e5f0eea7780

Work: gospel-mary · edition: gospel-mary-mattison. Reviewed 14 September 2026.

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