Essential Gnostic Scriptures
Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?Including the Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary Magdalene
$46.06
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2012
Summary
Poetic, accessible new translations of the most essential Gnostic texts—a brilliant collaboration by a world-renowned poet and a prominent scholar of early Christianity.
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 creat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590309254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590309251 |
| Author: | Marvin Meyer, Willis Barnstone |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 139mm x 215mm |
Critics Review
“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
Marvin Meyer
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone was educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, the Sorbonne, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. During the Cultural Revolution he went to China where he was later a Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-85). Former O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Indiana University.
His publications include:
- Modern European Poetry (1967)
- The Other Bible (1984)
- Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (1993)
- Funny Ways of Staying Alive (1993)
- The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets (1996)
- With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (1993)
- Algebra of Night: Selected Poems-1949-1998 (1999)
- The Apocalypse (2000)
- Life Watch (2003)
- Border of a Dream: Poems of Antonio Machado (2003)
- The Gnostic Bible (2003)
A Guggenheim Fellow, his awards include a National Endowment for the Arts award, a National Endowment for the Humanities award, an Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, a W. H. Auden Award of the New York State Council on the Arts, the Midland Authors Award, three Book of the Month Selections and four Pulitzer Prize nominations for poetry. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Doubletake, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, Poetry, Paris Review Poetry, Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The Times Literary Supplement.
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