The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0394744330 ISBN 13 : 9780394744339

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1986

Synopsis

The Secret Teachings of Jesus 4 revealing Christian texts founded in 1945 in Egypt which provide invaluable information about the character of the early Church and the Gnostic Christians within the Church. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church.

In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr. Meyer, a scholar long familiar with the Nag Hammadi texts, offers here a fresh and lively translation that anyone intrigued to learn more about these texts will welcome."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0394744330
• ISBN 13: 9780394744339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160