The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels

Marvin Meyer (Translator)

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In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church.

In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John.
  • ISBN10 0394744330
  • ISBN13 9780394744339
  • Publish Date 12 May 1986
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 24 November 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Random House USA Inc