Product Description: About the Contributor(s): Geo Widengren (1907-1996) was a Swedish Orientalist and scholar of religion. He concentrated on the religions of the ancient Near East, and specifically of Iran. He also studied Judaism, Islam, and religious phenomenology...read more

A collection of ten essays which address the problems of the origins and early development of Christianity. This book represents more that three decades of reasearch by Pearson, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of Santa Barbara and Professor and Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product Description: An assessment of the relationships and mutual impact of Gnosticism, ancient Judaism, and early Egyptian Christianity.

'Personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt and translations of ancient monastic texts'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: An important addition to the Studies in Antiquity and Christianity series. This book, by one of the world's most renowned experts on Coptic Christianity and Gnosticism, contains the results of research that Pearson has conducted over the past several years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains the critical edition of the five tractates in Nag Hammadi Codex VII, with codex introduction (by Frederik Wisse), introductions, Coptic text, and English translations and notes, of "The Paraphrase of Shem" (Wisse)...read more

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