Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987), the overall plan of which represents the perspective of this book; others are available in Marvin Meyer, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition (New York: HarperOne, 2007). I have used the translations in Layton's
