Research Catalog

Title

The other bible : Jewish pseudepigrapha, Christian apocrypha, Gnostic scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea scrolls / edited with introductions by Willis Barnstone.

Publication

[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Barnstone, Willis, 1927-

Description

xxvi, 773 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A new edition of our classic, The Other Bible, including a new index, new cover, and a new introduction from the author to bring The Other Bible up to date. The Other Bible gathers in one comprehensive volume ancient, esoteric holy texts from Judeo-Christian tradition that were excluded from the official canon of the Old and New Testaments, including the Gnostic Gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Kabbalah, and several more. The Other Bible provides a rare opportunity to discover the poetic and narrative riches of this long-suppressed literature and experience firsthand its visionary discourses on the nature of God, humanity, the spiritual life, the world around us, and infinite worlds beyond this one. This new edition will include a full index and a new introduction from editor Willis Barnstone. o The interest in Gnostic texts begun with The Da Vinci Code has spread to include many of the other "suppressed" early texts of Judaism and Christianity, and this book contains many of them in one volume.

Subject

• Apocryphal books
• Gnostic literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 737-757) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Creation Myths -- 2. Histories and Narratives -- 3. Wisdom Literature and Poetry -- 4. Gospels -- 5. Infancy Gospels -- 6. Acts -- 7. Apocalypses -- 8. Diverse Gnostic Texts -- 9. Manichaean and Mandaean Gnostic Texts -- 10. Mystical Documents.

ISBN

0060815981 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005046221

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library