This expanded edition of The Gnostic Bible includes the Gospel of Judas—the recently discovered and translated gnostic text that was an instant best seller on its original appearance in 2006—in its most accessible translation yet. Also included are such important and topical texts as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas. Religious thinkers engaged in the quest for wisdom and knowledge, the gnostics proclaimed that salvation could be found through mystical knowledge and intuition. Dating from the first to the thirteenth centuries, the texts in The Gnostic Bible represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar forms of gnostic spirituality, and they derive from Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, France, and elsewhere.

Big study Bibles are fine for home and office use, but people on the move need the Compact UltraSlim™-the New King James Bible that goes anywhere you go with style! Even with its sleek dimensions, you won't sacrifice important features like a full concordance, translation and explanatory notes, and full-color study maps. The Compact UltraSlim™ makes an affordably priced gift for those who use their Bibles wherever they go.

From the King James version of the New Testament come these masterworks detailing the early missionary's teachings. Paul's Epistles to the Romans — or Romans — discusses Christian life and theology. Acts of the Apostles — or Acts — recounts the formation of the church and the ministry of Christ's disciples.

"The Good Book" meets "The Brick."

From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doctrine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impenetrability and unfinished quality while awakening readers to an uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers. The early Christians’ sometimes raw, astonished, and halting prose challenges the idea that the New Testament affirms the kind of people we are. Hart reminds us that they were a company of extremists, radical in their rejection of the values and priorities of society not only at its most degenerate, but often at its most reasonable and decent. “To live as the New Testament language requires,” he writes, “Christians would have to become strangers and sojourners on the earth, to have here no enduring city, to belong to a Kingdom truly not of this world. And we surely cannot do that, can we?”

A captivating rendition of the Bible

- A handy-sized reference Bible with extra study features and clear, readable type
- Extensive center-column reference system
- 14 in-text maps and charts and a 13,000-entry concordance
- Also available in the New American Standard Bible

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