The Gospel of Mary of Magdala
10 best books like The Gospel of Mary of Magdala (Karen L King): The Moon Under Her Feet, Islam: A Short History, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, The Gnostic Gospels, The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament, The Gnostic Bible, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
| Author | Clysta Kinstler |
| ISBN | 0062504975 |
Narrative weaving the biblical account of Mary and Jesus, the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris, and the Sumerian story of Inanna and Dumuzi to create an exotic tale of a strong, sensual woman.
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This feminist retelling of the conception, birth, life and death of Christ...
El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0679724532 |
The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow...
| Author | Daniel C. Matt |
| ISBN | 0062511637 |
I first read this book several years ago for a course I took while working on my master’s degree. As I decided to incorporate weekly meditations in my world religion course, I wanted to revisit some of the mystical writings of each tradition I cover. This is mostly selections of Kabbalistic writings,...
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0195182502 |
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical...
| Author | Willis Barnstone |
| ISBN | 1590301994 |
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and...
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0195182499 |
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine,...
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609192 |
Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First...
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0375501568 |
Pagels, a writer and thinker on religion and history, winner of the National Book Award for The Gnostic Gospels, reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the 21st century. This book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the Gospel...
| Author | Cynthia Bourgeault |
| ISBN | 1590304950 |
Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer that question, Cynthia Bourgeault...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0892819111 |
Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine
• The first complete English-language translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary, with line-by-line commentary
• Reveals the eminence of the divine feminine in Christian thought
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Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet
| Author | Meggan Watterson |
| ISBN | 1401954901 |
--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains.
A...
| Author | Anonymous |
| 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 Gnostic Christians and translated into English by dozens...
| Author | Rodolphe Kasser |
| ISBN | 1426200420 |
For 1600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Xianity, & which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told...
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus
A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus.
Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus's teachings recorded in this gospel and explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned.
Translated and interpreted by the author of the bestselling...
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0670038458 |
The two leading, bestselling experts on the Gnostic Gospels weigh in on the meaning of the controversial newly discovered Gospel of Judas.
When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately...
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail
| Author | Margaret Starbird |
| ISBN | 1879181037 |
Alternate cover edition can be found here.
Margaret Starbird's theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a book that dared to suggest that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen and that their descendants carried on his holy bloodline in Western...
