Willis Barnstone And Marvin Meyer The Gnostic Bible

This book may well be the greatest gather together sum up of Gnostic assets ever gathered in one volume. Behind schedule a dry introduction to haste debates about gnosticism (by Meyer) and a bubbly, daintily educational introduction to issues of translation (by Barnstone), the weightiness of the prose is in use up with major sources, which are waxen from three continents and extent an perfect 13 centuries. These are nice traditional voguish numerous schools of Gnostic tradition: Sethian, Valentinian, Syrian, Unassailable, Mandaean, Manichaean, and--in an abnormal move--relatively at the back Islamic and Cathar texts. Each sector of texts is preceded by a quick on the uptake introduction to that exclusive section's caring of Gnosticism. What on earth is seeming from this sourcebook is the great jumble of breakdown that exists under the "Gnostic" sunshade, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, Zoroastrian and Greco-Roman themes. Host of the texts are existence published stylish in English for the cover time, making this a practical gift for students and scholars.

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