Meyer, Marvin W,

The Gnostic discoveries : the impact of the Nag Hammadi library / [print] Marvin Meyer. - first HarperCollins pbk. edition. - [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, (c)2006. - vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.



Fertilizer, blood vengeance, and codices : the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library -- Coptic texts from the sands of Egypt : the Nag Hammadi Library and the Berlin Gnostic Codex -- "They will not taste death" : the wisdom of the living Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas and the Thomas texts -- The wisdom of insight : the fall and restoration of Sophia in the Secret Book of John and Sethian texts -- Valentinus the Christian mystic : salvation through knowledge in the Gospel of Truth and Valentinian texts -- Hermes, Derdekeas, Thunder, and Mary : revealers of wisdom in other Nag Hammadi texts.



9780060858322


Nag Hammadi codices.


Gnosticism.

BT1391 BT1391.M613.G567 2006