The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
12 INTRODUCTION mystical spirituality, and they talked a different talk and walked a different walk than the emerging orthodox c ...
INTRODUCTION 13 called themselves gnostics, but Layton does not include them anywhere in his anthology. Yet, in spite of William ...
14 INTRODUCTION would include most of ancient Platonism, of course. But if we add the adjective "biblical," to denote "demiurgic ...
INTRODUCTION 15 Seen in this light, statements of comparison are always relative and contextual. This understanding of compariso ...
16 INTRODUCTION religions in a specific sense are those that give a primary place to gnosis, unmediated mystical knowledge, as t ...
INTRODUCTION 17 of the use of the term, the Bible, or the book, designates a collection or an- thology of sacred texts. We can e ...
18 INTRODUCTION text, and the Jesus Seminar in Santa Rosa, California, is discussing the possi- bility of a new New Testament, a ...
INTRODUCTION 19 of salvation from Judaism to Jesus and beyond. Yet the Christian canonical idea of Marcion carried the day, as d ...
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LETTING IN THE LIGHT Translating Holy Texts WILLIS BARNSTONE Spiritual and mystical scriptures survive on the fire of art. Witho ...
22 INTRODUCTION Anonymous teams in the Bible industry invented a compromise English, without written or spoken precedent, but th ...
INTRODUCTION 23 Those prophets who spoke magical words were not literary clods. Not if they were to be heard. To make a work hea ...
INTRODUCTION these registers, from literal to license, from close to imitation, are the subject of books and essays. As for meth ...
INTRODUCTION 25 John Wyclif (1320-84), a master at Balliol College in Oxford, was the first to transfer the gospels into the mod ...
26 INTRODUCTION the hogs of hell shall feed upon."^4 More specifically, More wrote, "Tyndale has wilfully mistranslated the scri ...
INTRODUCTION 27 These little books constituting The Gnostic Bible are a privilege to transfer into English. Though heterogeneous ...
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PART ONE Early Wisdom Gospels ...
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INTRODUCTION MARVIN MEYER n the beginning was wisdom, Hokhmah, Sophia. One of the earliest forms of exalted expression in the wo ...
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