The Gospel of Thomas : (Record no. 45955)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780060655815 (recycled, acid-free paper)
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BS2860.T5
Item number A3 1992
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel).English & Coptic.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Gospel of Thomas :
Remainder of title the hidden sayings of Jesus /
Statement of responsibility, etc translation, with introduction, critical edition of the Coptic text & notes by Marvin Meyer ; with an interpretation by Harold Bloom.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc HarperSanFrancisco
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1992
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 130p. ;
Dimensions 20cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "In this fresh and masterful translation, Marvin Meyer presents one of the world's best-loved sacred texts. Honed over the last twenty years through a dozen versions, Meyer's Thomas promises to remain the definitive translation for decades to come." "Widely regarded by scholars as containing many of the original sayings of Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945 among the gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Reportedly dictated by Jesus to his brother, Judas Thomas the Twin, founder of the churches of the East, Thomas reveals a Jesus who merges with the wisdom of the sophists, with Diogenes, Plato, and Socrates." "In his interpretation, Harold Bloom writes about the Jesus who touches him, the uncanny voice he hears in the Gospel of Thomas, free of the dogmatic cast that has held Jesus in ecclesiastical captivity since the canonical Gospels were written. "Seeing what is before you is the whole art of vision for Thomas's Jesus," he writes. "Nothing mediates the self for the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas. Everything we seek is already in our presence, and not outside our self. What is most remarkable in these sayings is the repeated insistence that everything is already open to you. You need but knock and enter."" "Through Marvin Meyer's lucid rendering of Christ's Zen master-like sayings we witness a gospel that, as Bloom puts it, "spares us the crucifixion, makes the resurrection unnecessary, and does not present us with a God named Jesus. No dogmas could be founded upon this sequence (if it is a sequence) of apothegms. If you turn to the Gospel of Thomas, you encounter a Jesus who is unsponsored and free.""--Jacket.
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Relator term Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospelinterpretation)
General subdivision Criticism,etc.
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Source of term fast
Non-focus term Criticism, interpretation, etc.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Meyer, Marvin W.
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Personal name Bloom, Harold
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
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    Library of Congress Classification     Non-fiction Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation 23/02/2016 Donations 500.00   BS2860.T5 A3 1992 045812 1 23/02/2016 Book