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008			911213s1992 cau b 000 0 eng
010			_a91058913
015			_aGB93-34242
020			_a9780060655815
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dUKM _dBAKER _dNLGGC _dYDXCP _dOCLCQ _dBTCTA _dLVB _dM6U _dOKN _dBTN _dSBI
041	1		_aengcop _hcop
049			_aSBIM
050	0	4	_aBS2860.G676.G677 1992
050	0	4	_aBS2860
245	1	4	_aThe Gospel of Thomas : _bthe hidden sayings of Jesus / _ctranslation, with introduction, critical edition of the Coptic text and notes by Marvin Meyer ; with an interpretation by Harold Bloom. _hPR
250			_afirst edition.
260			_a[San Francisco, California] : _bHarperSanFrancisco, _c(c)1992.
300			_a130 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 123-130).
520	1		_a"In this fresh and masterful translation, Marvin Meyer presents one of the world's best-loved sacred texts. Honed over the last twenty years through a dozen versions, Meyer's Thomas promises to remain the definitive translation for decades to come." "Widely regarded by scholars as containing many of the original sayings of Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945 among the gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Reportedly dictated by Jesus to his brother, Judas Thomas the Twin, founder of the churches of the East, Thomas reveals a Jesus who merges with the wisdom of the sophists, with Diogenes, Plato, and Socrates." "In his interpretation, Harold Bloom writes about the Jesus who touches him, the uncanny voice he hears in the Gospel of Thomas, free of the dogmatic cast that has held Jesus in ecclesiastical captivity since the canonical Gospels were written. "Seeing what is before you is the whole art of vision for Thomas's Jesus," he writes. "Nothing mediates the self for the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas. Everything we seek is already in our presence, and not outside our self. What is most remarkable in these sayings is the repeated insistence that everything is already open to you. You need but knock and enter."" "Through Marvin Meyer's lucid rendering of Christ's Zen master-like sayings we witness a gospel that, as Bloom puts it, "spares us the crucifixion, makes the resurrection unnecessary, and does not present us with a God named Jesus. No dogmas could be founded upon this sequence (if it is a sequence) of apothegms. If you turn to the Gospel of Thomas, you encounter a Jesus who is unsponsored and free.""--BOOK JACKET.
530			_a2
630	0	0	_aGospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
700	1		_aMeyer, Marvin W.
700	1		_aBloom, Harold.
856	4	2	_zPublisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc044/91058913.html
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell