Essential Gnostic Scriptures

Essential Gnostic Scriptures brings together ancient Gnostic texts to the modern age. These translations render the difficult topic understandable and compelling. The people we've come to call Gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience. 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 translations that bring 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 in The Essential Gnostic Scriptures serve as a compact introduction to Gnosticism.  Presenting principal ideas--and also providing an entrée to the pleasures of gnostic literature in general, representing, as they do, the greatest masterpieces of that tradition.  

Product Details:

ISBN# 9781590309254.
Paperback, 240 pages.
Publisher: Shambhala, Published: June 2009.
Size: 5.40 x 9.77 x 8.47 inches, Weight: 0.95 Lbs.

Author

Willis Barnstone (born November 13, 1927) is an American poet, memoirist, translator, Hispanist, and comparatist. He has translated the Ancient Greek poets and the complete fragments of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος). Willis is also a New Testament and Gnostic scholar. He is well known for his translation collaboration with Marvin M. Meyer on Gnostic texts.              

Author

Marvin W. Meyer
(1948 - 2012)

Marvin W. Meyer (April 16, 1948-Aug. 16, 2012) was one of the foremost scholars on early Christianity and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament. Dr. Meyer was Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. Among his books are The Gospel of Judas, The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus, The Gospels of Mary, The Gospel of Thomas, and The Nag Hammadi Scriptures.

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