From sundance@neosoft.com Sun Aug 20 03:07:40 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA47358 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 03:07:39 -0700 Received: from mail3.iadfw.net (mail3.iadfw.net [209.196.123.3]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id DAA24096 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 03:07:38 -0700 Received: from [209.196.111.143] from [209.196.111.143] by mail3.iadfw.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.4) with esmtp for sender: id ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:07:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:07:11 -0500 Subject: The Nag Hammadi Library in English - for lovers of CLASSIC writings and Antiquities - From: Harold Helm To: CC: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James M. Robinson (Editor) (November 1990) Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0060669357 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophic texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Christians and translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known works: the Gospel of Thomas, attributed to Jesus' brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word gnosis is defined as "the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth." The Nag Hammadi show an earnest effort to experience the Divine on a personal, human level. The Gospel of Thomas, Teachings of Silvanus, Apocryphon of James, Book of Thomas the Contender, and Apocalypse of Peter are so far my favorites. Maybe the lesson these aged and fragile papyri can teach us is that the Divine is, to quote the text, "Everywhere yet no where. In you yet beyond you. Visible yet invisible." snipped and excerpted for education, discussion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060669357/o/qid=966763559/sr=2-1/002 -2463353-1613609 further book reviews, critiques welcome - Harold Helm To subscribe- blank message to: RM-COUNSEL-subscribe@egroups.com http://www.ftsr.ulaval.ca/bcnh/accueil.asp?lng=ang_ .