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The Gnostic Bible
by Willis Barnstone  Publisher Comments A landmark work of scholarship and literary translation, The Gnostic Bible presents the most significant and beautiful sacred texts of gnostic mysticism. The gnostics were religious thinkers who believed that salvation is found through mystical knowledge...
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Gnostic Bible
by Willis Barnstone Publisher Comments Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium ce–with earlier antecedents and later flourishings–whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking...
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Revised Edition
by James Robinson Publisher Comments 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...
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
by Elaine Pagels Publisher Comments In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy. Spurred on by personal tragedy and...
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The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
by Bart D Ehrman Publisher Comments The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now, a leading historian of the early church, Bart Ehrman...
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
by Elaine H. Pagels 
Publisher Comments Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels,...
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The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesus
by Marvin W Meyer Publisher Comments Collected together for the first time are the original Gospel of Mary, one of the "Gnostic Gospels," and three other secret texts that reveal the significant role Mary Magdalene played in Jesus' inner circle of disciples. This is a new translation of the...
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Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
by Elaine Pagels and Karen King Publisher Comments The two leading, bestselling experts on the Gnostic Gospels weigh in on the meaning of the controversial newly discovered Gospel of Judas. When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received...
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The Gospel of the Second Coming
by Timothy Freke Publisher Comments In 2005, a disgruntled archivist at the Vatican Library made contact with revisionist historians Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, claiming that the Vatican was secretly housing a number of unpublished “heretical” Gnostic Christian texts. He...
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Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
by Bart D Ehrman Publisher Comments A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that...
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Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
by Elaine Pagels Publisher Comments The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascination for biblical scholars and lay Christians alike. Now two leading experts on the Gnostic gospels tackle...
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The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
by Herbert Krosney Publisher Comments Judas Iscariot. He's been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ's betrayer — the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver. But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot. One such reference was...
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The Origin of Satan
by Elaine Pagels
Publisher Comments From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of...
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The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library
by Marvin Meyer Publisher Comments The archaeological find of the century was the astounding discovery by an Egyptian peasant in December 1945 of a large storage jar filled with ancient religious manuscripts. Through them we glimpse a fascinating alternative perspective on Jesus and many...
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The Prodigal Soul: The Wisdom of the Ancient Parables
by John Davidson Publisher Comments The ancient teachings of early Christianity in a clear and enjoyable form....
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The Gospel of Mary of Magdala
by Karen L. King Synopsis Lost for more than fifteen hundred years, the Gospel of Mary is the only existing early Christian gospel written in the name of a woman. Karen L. King tells the story of the recovery of this remarkable gospel and offers a new translation. This brief...
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The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel
by James M Robinson Publisher Comments The discovery of a previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community. What Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us about Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is inconsistent and biased. Therefore, the revelation of an...
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The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran: The Essene Mysteries of John the Baptist
by Robert Feather Publisher Comments An examination of the early, mysterious Essene community at Qumran that links it with John the Baptist, Jesus, and the beginnings of Christianity•Offers an eyewitness account of the final burial place of John the Baptist•Makes the case that...
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Gnosis of the Light: A Translation of the Untitled Apocalypse Contained in the Codex Brucianus
by F Lamplugh Synopsis The Codex Brucianus is a translation of an ancient Gnostic work from the sixth century and was brought to England from Upper Egypt and donated to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Gnosis is the power of receiving and understanding direct revelation of God...
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The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
by Jean Yves Leloup Publisher Comments An examination of how the teachings of Jesus reveal the essential role of sexuality in spiritual growth and transformation- Shows that Jesus did not come to redeem humanity from the life of the flesh, but to honor it as a spiritual path- Uses Hebrew...
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