The Gnostic Gospels

This collection translates early Christian and related writings recovered mainly from the Nag Hammadi codices, with further pieces from the Berlin Gnostic Codex and Codex Tchacos. Typical texts include sayings gospels, secret dialogues, creation myths, and accounts that recast Eden, the role of Mary Magdalene, or the figure of Judas. Speakers are Jesus, disciples, and personified powers; the concern is knowledge that frees the divine spark from a flawed material order. Introductions place each work. The volume is an anthology of heterodox scripture, not a modern history of the finds and not the four canonical gospels.

Quarter bound in orange-brown buckram with cloth sides, printed with an angel from a 4th-century Egyptian painting. Mottled-brown endleaves. Dark brown slipcase.