Author: Meyer, Marvin & Robinson, James M & Pagels, Elaine

NAG HAMMADI SCRIPTURES: The Definitive International Edition, translated and edited by Marvin Meyer and James M. Robinson, with an Introduction by Elaine Pagels, at $34.95 (H) from HarperCollins, ISBN 0060523786 - 9780060523787. In 1945, near the city of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian peasant unearthed a large storage jar containing a treasury of fourth-century texts, including the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Truth, and many other scriptures of the mystical tradition called Gnosticism. Since this discovery, our picture of the ancient world has changed markedly. This book contains the most complete and up-to-date English editions of these texts, plus the more recently discovered Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas, and Book of the Stranger.