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The Exegesis on the Soul is a Nag Hammadi text that uses the allegorical figure of the Soul as a fallen divine being — a woman who descends from her father's house, is defiled by the material world, repents, and is redeemed. It draws extensively on both the Hebrew Bible and Homer to illustrate its argument.
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- Found in Nag Hammadi Codex II
- Uses the Soul (feminine) as its central allegorical figure — paralleling Sophia's myth
- Quotes from Hosea, Ezekiel, and the Odyssey to support its argument
- One of the most literary of the Nag Hammadi texts — reads as a theological meditation rather than a revelation