The Gnostic Bible; Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds; Revised and Expanded Edition

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.

WILLIS BARNSTONE, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he is also a member of the Institute of Biblical and Literary Studies. His many books include The Poetics of Translation, The Other Bible, The New Covenant, With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires, The Complete Poems of Sappho, and The Restored New Testament . A Guggenheim Fellow, his awards include 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 of the Arts, the Midland Authors Award, and four Pulitzer Prize nominations for poetry. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Doubletake, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, Poetry, Paris Review Poetry, Partisan Review, the New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement .

MARVIN MEYER, PhD, (1948–2012) was Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University.