Gnosticism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Female representation === It is difficult to find real women represented in sources characterized as 'Gnostic.' The few that are mentioned are portrayed to be chaotic, disobedient, and even enigmatic.'''<ref name=":02">{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Nicola Denzey |chapter=Women in Gnosticism |date=2021-02-18 |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867067.003.0007 |title=Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity |pages=109β129 |access-date=2023-05-05 |publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/oso/9780198867067.003.0007 |isbn=978-0-19-886706-7 }}</ref>''' However, significant Gnostic texts like the Nag Hammadi place women in roles of leadership and heroism, contradicting the narrative that women in Gnostic spaces were mere victims to their circumstance.<ref name=":02"/>{{sfn|King|2003|p={{page needed|date=January 2024}}}}<ref name="Oxford University Press">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1123192570 |title=The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality |date=2019 |editor=Benjamin H. Dunning |isbn=978-0-19-021341-1 |location=New York, New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en-us |oclc=1123192570}}</ref> The role women played in the evolution of Gnosticism is an area of study still being explored. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page