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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9780060669355
ISBN: 0060669357
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: November 21, 1990
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: October 12, 1990
Sales Rank: 47717
Studio: HarperOne
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This revised, expanded, and updated edition of The Nag Hammadi Library is the only complete, one-volume, modern language version of the renowned library of fourth-century manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945.
First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library launched modern Gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in many ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago.
James M. Robinson's updated introduction reflects ten years of additional research and editorial and critical work. An afterword by Richard Smith discusses the modern relevance of Gnosticism and its influence on such writers as Voltaire, Blake, Melville, Yeats, Kerouac, and Philip K. Dick.
Acclaimed by scholars and general readers alike, The Nag Hammadi Library is a work of major importance to everyone interested in the evolution of Christianity, the Bible, archaeology, and the story of Western civilization.
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The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophic texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians and translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. First published in 1978, this is the revised 1988 edition supported by illuminating introductions to each document. The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known works: the Gospel of Thomas, attributed to Jesus' brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word gnosis is defined as 'the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth.' This doomed radical sect believed in being here now--withdrawing from the contamination of society and materiality--and that heaven is an internal state, not some place above the clouds. That this collection has resurfaced at this historical juncture is more than likely no coincidence. --P. Randall Cohan
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"As with all the Aeons, the Aeon of Barbelo exists, also endowed with the types and forms of those who truly exist, the image of Kalyptos. And endowed with the intellectual Word of these, he bears the noetic male protophanes like an image, and he acts within the individuals either with craftor with skill or with partial instinct." Allogenes (XI,3)
A New Definitive Translation?
Not arguing that this work was "The Most Important book of many decades," ... Read More
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I've had this book for some years. I've enjoyed it.
I recently saw that a newer collection has come out. This older NHL came out in 1988/90, and perhaps it was as definitive as definitive gets back then, but when I saw that Marvin Meyer has editted "The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, The International Version" published in 2007, I decided to check it out.
I prefer Meyer's volume. I believe it shows that progress has been made in translating and interpreting these texts in the ... Read More
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This book is generally well done. The introduction to Gnosticism is not as thorough as the introduction by Bentley Layton in The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (The Anchor Bible Reference Library), though. And for what it is worth, the translation style tends to be more literal than Layton. When one is dealing with ancient texts, though, whether the Christian Bible or the Gnostic texts, multiple translations are helpful. A more literal translation helps ... Read More
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This book is awesome. It has a lot of information that coincides with the bible but also other information that was left out. I strongly recommend it for anyone that is on a spiritual search and thirsts for more knowledge.
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This is a compilation of works written at or near the same times as the canonized texts. This is not light reading, and is intended for those who do NOT want their history/religious myth prefaced by someone else's interpretation of what enlightened students can easily comprehend and process for themselves.
If you crave enlightenment into the origins of the Christian religion without the inane prattlings of Biblical "scholars" of today, read this and THINK FOR YOURSELF!
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