Essential Gnostic Scriptures
Barnstone, Willis, Meyer, Marvin
Language: English
Published by Shambhala Publications, Incorporated, 2010
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- Title
- Essential Gnostic Scriptures
- Author
- Barnstone, Willis, Meyer, Marvin
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1590305493
- ISBN 13
- 9781590305492
- Edition
- 1st.
- Item weight
- 1.085 pounds
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About the Author
His publications include Modern European Poetry (Bantam, 1967), The Other Bible (HarperCollins, 1984), Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (Yale, 1993), Funny Ways of Staying Alive (University Press of New England, 1993), The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets (University Press of New England, 1996), the memoir With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (University of Illinois, 1993), Algebra of Night: Selected Poems19491998 (Sheep Meadow, 1999), The Apocalypse (New Directions, 2000), Life Watch (BOA Editions, 2003), Border of a Dream: Poems of Antonio Machado (Copper Canyon, 2003), and The Gnostic Bible (Shambhala Publications, 2003).
A 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 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.
Willis Barnstone, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he is also a member of the Insitute 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.
Marvin Meyer, PhD, is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University, Orange, California, and is one of the foremost scholars of Coptic and gnostic studies at work today. He is the author, editor, or translator of numerous books, including the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gnostic Gospels of Jesus, and the Nag Hammadi Scriptures.
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