Marvin Meyer Bücher

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, as well as other Gnostic gospels and sacred texts. This volume also includes introductory essays, notes, tables, glossary, index, etc. to help the reader understand the context and contemporary significance of these texts which have shed new light on early Christianity and ancient thought. The compilation of ancient manuscripts that constitute The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is a discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early Christian church, ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman religions.

Focusing on the translation and interpretation of the Gospel of Judas, this work presents an updated version enriched with new text fragments and insights from recent scholarship. The author, a key member of the team that first published the Gospel, shares personal experiences from the original research process and explores the broader literary context surrounding Judas Iscariot. This comprehensive commentary aims to reshape readers' understanding of Judas's role in the narrative of Jesus's passion, inviting deeper discussions on the implications of the text.

Meyer provides an overview of the Nag Hammadi texts and their contents, and discusses their meaning and significance for us today.

A collection of Gnostic texts spanning centuries, geographical locations, and cultural traditions—“a wonderful achievement” (Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels) 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. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced. 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.

The book presents an extensive collection of sayings attributed to Jesus, compiling over 1,500 versions of 500 quotations from the New Testament and other ancient texts, including the Gospel of Thomas. Marvin Meyer enriches this collection by adding 200 additional epigrams and parables sourced from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions. The inclusion of an insightful introduction and annotations offers context and perspective, enhancing the reader's understanding of these profound teachings.

The best English translations of forty sacred texts describing the mystery religions of the ancient Mediterranean world.

The gnostics were religious thinkers who believed that salvation was found through mystical knowledge and personal religious experience. Their scriptures, composed over more than a millennium, are texts of remarkable beauty. Now you can experience that beauty directly by listening to the texts in poetic readings by the translators. For their audio reading, Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have chosen the most captivating poetry from their larger collection, The Gnostic Bible. Included with the audio program is a book, The Gnostics and Their Scriptures, which serves as the perfect short introduction to the gnostic movement.

In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church. In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John.

Kniha vyplňuje mezeru na českém knižním trhu, neboť nabízí nejen nový překlad Tomášova evangelia, ale poprvé také jeho koptský text a řecké fragmenty. Je proto určena nejen laikům, ale i odborníkům z řad teologů a religionistů. Kniha je opatřena úvodem a výkladovými poznámkami Marvina Meyera a dopněna gnostickým kázáním známého literárního kritika Harolda Blooma.