The Nag Hammadi Scriptures

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures

Gnosticism
Nag Hammadi codices

"The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, as well as other Gnostic gospels and sacred texts. This volume also includes introductory essays, notes, tables, glossary, index, etc. to help the reader understand the context and contemporary significance of these texts which have shed new light on early Christianity and ancient thought. The compilation of ancient manuscripts that constitute The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is a discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early Christian church, ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman religions." -- Publisher's description

Marvin Meyer

"Based on the work of the Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften, the Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi, Université Laval, and the Coptic Gnostic Library Project, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University."

San Francisco : HarperOne

with contributions by Wolf-Peter Funk [and others]
Introduction by Elaine H. Pagels

xiii, 844 pages ; 24 cm.

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