Meyer, Marvin W.
Summary: In 1945 an Egyptian peasant discovered a jar filled with ancient manuscripts. Painstakingly restored and translated, these fragments came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library. Included are gospels of Jesus's life that never made it into the modern Christian Bible as well as a treasury of lost, esoteric wisdom that portrays a side of Christianity suppressed by the institutionalized church....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Contents: Albert Schweitzer and the image of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas -- The beginning of the Gospel of Thomas -- Seeing or coming to the child of the living one? : more on Gospel of Thomas saying 37 -- Be passersby : Gospel of Thomas saying 42 and Islamic literature -- Making Mary male : the categories "male" and "female" in the Gospel of Thomas -- Gospel of Thomas saying 114 revisited -- The youth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Press International 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 229.8 MEYSummary: When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed--a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history's ultimate traitor. And far from being a villain, the Judas that emerges in its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006