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The Nag Hammadi Scriptures || Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures || Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts
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The Nag Hammadi Scriptures || Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts
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.
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This is a must have, if you're interested in the books that were left out of the Bible. You'll find about 50 texts, like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Truth. There are Banned Books, ordered destroyed after the Council of Nicea. So some monks stuck them in a jar and buried them in the Egyptian desert where they waited till 1945. A lot of surprises here.