The Gnostic discoveries
Subtitle: the impact of the Nag Hammadi library
By: Marvin Meyer
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Nag Hammadi codices; Gnosticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-239)
Table of contents: title: Fertilizer, blood vengeance, and codices : the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library; title: Coptic texts from the sands of Egypt : the Nag Hammadi Library and the Berlin Gnostic Codex; title: "They will not taste death" : the wisdom of the living Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas and the Thomas texts; title: The wisdom of insight : the fall and restoration of Sophia in the Secret Book of John and Sethian texts; title: Valentinus the Christian mystic : salvation through knowledge in the Gospel of Truth and Valentinian texts; title: Hermes, Derdekeas, Thunder, and Mary : revealers of wisdom in other Nag Hammadi texts