Gnostic Bible

In The Gnostic Bible, the selections gathered in poetic, readable translation represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading. Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE. With earlier antecedents whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience.

Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. Some gnostic texts suggest that God should be celebrated as mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions.

Product Details:

ISBN#9781590306314.
Paperback, 896 pages.
Publisher: Shambhala, Published: June 2009
Size: 6.18 x 2.07 x 9.21 inches, Weight: 2.55 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

Dr. 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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