Essential Gnostic Scriptures: Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?Including...

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Marvin Meyer Willis Barnstone

Essential Gnostic Scriptures

Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?Including the Gospels of Thomas,...

Marvin Meyer, Willis Barnstone

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Shambhala Publications Inc
15 January 2012

Sacred texts; Gnosticism

The people we've come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beauty-beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianity-including material from the Nag Hammadi library-and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a compact introduction to Gnosticism and its principal ideas-and they also provide an entree to the pleasures of gnostic literature in general, representing, as they do, the greatest masterpieces of that tradition.

By: Marvin Meyer, Willis Barnstone
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781590309254
ISBN 10: 1590309251
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 January 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Essential Gnostic Scriptures: Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?Including the Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary Magdalene

An important sampler of relatively unknown spiritual literature. --Library Journal May well be the most comprehensive collection of Gnostic materials ever gathered into one volume. A valuable resource. --Publishers Weekly An enormously rich collection of sources--a wonderful achievement! --Elaine Pagels, author of Beyond Belief