| The Other Bible Revised and Upd Edition Contributor(s): Barnstone, Willis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060815981 ISBN-13: 9780060815981 Publisher: HarperOne
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - Bible Study Guides - Religion | Biblical Commentary - Old Testament - Historical Books - Religion | Biblical Reference - General |
| Dewey: 229.052 |
| LCCN: 2005046221 |
| Physical Information: 2.06" H x 6.18" W x 9.28" L (1.89 lbs) 800 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Academic - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barnstone, Willis: - Willis Barnstone is a poet and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He is the author of The Poetics of Ecstasy: From Sappho to Borges; The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice; and The Gnostic Bible; and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Pulitzer Prize nominee. |
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