The secret books of the Egyptian Gnostics : an introduction to the Gnostic Coptic manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion

by Jean Doresse

Paper Book, 1986

Status

Available

Call number

299/.932

Collection

Publication

Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions International, 1986.

Description

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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scholarship before the Nag Hammadi gospels were found.
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Language

Original language

French

Original publication date

1958

Physical description

xvii, 445 p.; 22 cm

ISBN

0892811072 / 9780892811076

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