Abstract
Preserved among the 53-odd writings found purportedly in an ancient Greco-Roman cemetery near the cliffs of Jebel et-Tarif in Upper Egypt 1) is a most important witness to the Gentilic Wisdom literature of Early Christianity. This is The Teachings of Silvanus 2), which occupies the 35-pages immediately following the first three writings contained in Codex VII (viz., The Paraphrase of Shem, The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, and The Apocalypse of Peter), and which is followed by The Three Steles of Seth. In the paragraphs which follow, there shall be offered a description of this text and its literary form, a brief sketch of its contents, some selected illustrations of its indebtedness to contemporary spheres of influence, and our provisional views on its authorship, date, and provenance 3).
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