The Gnostic Bible </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Barnstone, Willis</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="corporate"> <namePart>Willis Barnstone (Editor) , Marvin W. Meyer (Editor)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">1:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">Canada</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Shambhala</publisher> <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued> <edition>Revised and Expanded Edition</edition> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>881tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. The selections gathered here, in poetic, readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Willis Barnstone (Editor)</note> <subject> <topic>Gnosticism</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">299.932</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B259-W73</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9781590306314</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15532/211.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15532/211.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071506.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>