Author: Meyer, Marvin

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. Now in paper. 864 pp.