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Gnosis on the Silk Road : Gnostic texts from Central Asia

In the late 1970s the first English translation of the Coptic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library, profoundly changed the world's understanding of Christianity. Now with the publication of Gnosis on the Silk Road - a never before published collection of extraordinary texts from the Gnostic tradition in Central Asia - renowned scholar and author Hans-Joachim Klimkeit has provided a unique Eastern companion text to that important work

Print Book, English, ©1993
1st ed
HarperSanFrancisco, [San Francisco, Calif.], ©1993