The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume

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Harper Collins, Sep 14, 2010 - Religion - 864 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Prayer of the Apostle Paul
15
The Gospel of Truth
31
The Treatise on Resurrection
49
The Tripartite Tractate
57
The Secret Book of John
103
The Gospel of Thomas with
133
The Gospel of Philip
157
The Second Discourse of Great Seth
473
The Revelation of Peter
487
The Three Steles of Seth
523
Zostrianos
537
The Letter of Peter to Philip
585
The Thought of Norea
607
Marsanes
629
The Interpretation of Knowledge
651

The Nature of the Rulers
187
On the Origin of the World
199
Exegesis on the Soul
223
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit
247
Eugnostos the Blessed
271
The Dialogue of the Savior
297
The Revelation of Paul
313
The Second Revelation of James
331
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
357
Authoritative Discourse
379
Excerpt from Platos Republic
403
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
409
Excerpt from the Perfect Discourse
425
Valentinian Liturgical Readings
663
Allogenes the Stranger
679
Hypsiphrone
701
Three Forms of First Thought
715
The Gospel of Mary with the Greek Gospel of Mary
737
The Act of Peter
749
The Gospel of Judas
755
The Book of Allogenes
771
Schools of Thought in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures
777
Hermetic Religion
795
Bibliography
803
Acknowledgments
827
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Marvin Meyer is one of the foremost scholars on early Christianity and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament. He is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. Among his recent books are The Gospel of Judas, The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus, The Gospels of Mary, The Gospel of Thomas, and The Nag Hammadi Scriptures.

James M. Robinson, consultant for this collection, is widely known for his groundbreaking contribution as the permanent secretary of UNESCO's International Committee for the Nag Hammadi codices, and his many published works on Gnostic texts and the Sayings Gospel Q.

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