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Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions International, 1986.
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A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas.
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LibraryThing member tuckerresearch
Doresse was writing intelligently about the Gnostic Gospels a long time before Pagels had a degree, and before the current renaissance in gnostic interest. Doresse, an expert in the Nag Hammadi corpus, makes no leaps like most new age hack writers and, unlike them, he gives you a history of Gnostic
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French
Original publication date
1958
Physical description
xvii, 445 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0892811072 / 9780892811076
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