{"product_id":"essential-gnostic-scriptures-texts-of-luminous-wisdom-from-the-ancient-and-medieval-worldsincluding-the-gospels-of-thomas-judas-and-mary-magdalene-9781590309254","title":"Essential Gnostic Scriptures: Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?Including the Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary Magdalene","description":"The people we've come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beauty--beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianity--including material from the Nag Hammadi library--and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a compact introduction to Gnosticism and its principal ideas--and they also provide an entrée to the pleasures of gnostic literature in general, representing, as they do, the greatest masterpieces of that tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone was educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, the Sorbonne, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. During the Cultural Revolution he went to China where he was later a Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-85). Former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Indiana University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis publications include \u003ci\u003eModern European Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e (Bantam, 1967), \u003ci\u003eThe Other Bible \u003c\/i\u003e(HarperCollins, 1984), \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice \u003c\/i\u003e (Yale, 1993), \u003ci\u003eFunny Ways of Staying Alive \u003c\/i\u003e(University Press of New England, 1993), \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets \u003c\/i\u003e (University Press of New England, 1996), the memoir \u003ci\u003eWith Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires \u003c\/i\u003e (University of Illinois, 1993), \u003ci\u003eAlgebra of Night: Selected Poems--1949-1998 \u003c\/i\u003e (Sheep Meadow, 1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Apocalypse \u003c\/i\u003e (New Directions, 2000), \u003ci\u003eLife Watch \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA Editions, 2003), \u003ci\u003eBorder of a Dream: Poems of Antonio Machado \u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon, 2003), and \u003ci\u003eThe Gnostic Bible \u003c\/i\u003e (Shambhala Publications, 2003). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Guggenheim Fellow, his awards include a National Endowment for the Arts award, a National Endowment for the Humanities award, an Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, a W. H. Auden Award of the New York State Council on the Arts, the Midland Authors Award, three Book of the Month Selections and four Pulitzer Prize nominations for poetry. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Doubletake, Harper's, New York Review of Books, Poetry, Paris Review Poetry, Partisan Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179054756114,"sku":"9781590309254","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fdd61e90-c30c-4908-acc8-517839a494c6.jpg?v=1775634912","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/essential-gnostic-scriptures-texts-of-luminous-wisdom-from-the-ancient-and-medieval-worldsincluding-the-gospels-of-thomas-judas-and-mary-magdalene-9781590309254","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}