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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 299.932 EAN: 9789004088566 ISBN: 9004088563 Label: Brill Academic Publishers Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 550 Publication Date: August 01, 1997 Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers Studio: Brill Academic Publishers Sales Rank: 273088 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library was widely acclaimed by critics and scholars alike. Containing many of the writings of the Gnostics since the time of Christ, this was the work that launched modern Gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in may ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago. Although some of the texts had appeared in other translations, the 1978 edition was the first and only translation of these ancient and fascinating manuscripts to appear in one volume. This new edition is the result of ten years of additional research, and editorial and critical work. Every translation has been changed or added to; many have been thoroughly revised. Unearthed in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, the texts literally begin where the Dead Sea Scrolls end. Their discovery is seen as equally significant, bringing to light a long-hidden well of new information, sources, and insights into early Judaism and the roots of Christianity. Each text is accompanied by a new and expanded introduction. Also included are a revised general introduction and an afterword discussing the modern relevance of Gnosticism, from Voltaire and Blake through Melville and Yeats to Jack Kerouac and science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The translations and introductions to the Nag Hammadi texts are by members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project, which includes such scholars as Helmut Koester, George McRae, and Elaine Pagels. Amazon.com Review: The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophic texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians and translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. First published in 1978, this is the revised 1988 edition supported by illuminating introductions to each document. The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known works: the Gospel of Thomas, attributed to Jesus' brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word gnosis is defined as "the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth." This doomed radical sect believed in being here now--withdrawing from the contamination of society and materiality--and that heaven is an internal state, not some place above the clouds. That this collection has resurfaced at this historical juncture is more than likely no coincidence. --P. Randall Cohan Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Reference BooksDue to its superior numerical notational system, popularity, academic acceptance, and comprehensiveness "The Nag Hammadi Library" (NHL) by James M. Robinson is a must for every researcher of these texts. As one of the editors of the cross references for "The Comprehensive New Testament," I greatly appreciated the superior numerical notational system created by Robinson's team. The NHL consists of complete and fragmentary parts of thirteen codices in Coptic. Originally composed prior ... Read More Rating:  - A Definitive New Translation? The Three Sins of James M.Robinson"As with all the Aeons, the Aeon of Barbelo exists, also endowed with the types and forms of those who truly exist, the image of Kalyptos. And endowed with the intellectual Word of these, he bears the noetic male protophanes like an image, and he acts within the individuals either with craftor with skill or with partial instinct." Allogenes (XI,3) A New Definitive Translation? Not arguing that this work was "The Most Important book of many decades," ... Read More Rating: - I like a newer volume of these texts. I've had this book for some years. I've enjoyed it. I recently saw that a newer collection has come out. This older NHL came out in 1988/90, and perhaps it was as definitive as definitive gets back then, but when I saw that Marvin Meyer has editted "The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, The International Version" published in 2007, I decided to check it out. I prefer Meyer's volume. I believe it shows that progress has been made in translating and interpreting these texts in the ... Read More Rating: - Good, but not "definitive"This book is generally well done. The introduction to Gnosticism is not as thorough as the introduction by Bentley Layton in The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (The Anchor Bible Reference Library), though. And for what it is worth, the translation style tends to be more literal than Layton. When one is dealing with ancient texts, though, whether the Christian Bible or the Gnostic texts, multiple translations are helpful. A more literal translation helps ... Read More Rating: - Nag HammadiThis book is awesome. It has a lot of information that coincides with the bible but also other information that was left out. I strongly recommend it for anyone that is on a spiritual search and thirsts for more knowledge. Browse for similar items by category:
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