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Title: The Other Bible by Willis Barnstone ISBN: 0-06-250030-9 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 May, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly These Are Jewels
Comment: Willis Barnstone has gathered a number of non-canonical writngs together into what he calls _The Other Bible_. It is not that these other writings ever formed a canon or were ever a part of a canon with the possible exception of the Book of Jubilees. Rather Barnstone has collected writings which have parallel themes to those found in the Bible. He begins with writings in creation myths and follows it with histories, wisdom literature, gospels, acts, and apocalypses. Sounds like the way the Bible is organized, doesn't it? Barnstone has gathered these writings from diverse sources, from Jewish pseudepigrapha, Gnostic writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Christian apocrprypha, and Manichaean sources.
Barnstone has selected the best of the best for _The Other Bible_. On page 255 he calls the psalms collected from the DSS the literary jewel of the DSS. In my opinion all of the writings collected by Barnstone are literary jewels. For example, if one wanted to read all of the ancient gospels, one could read Schneemelcher's first volume of _New Testament Apocrypha_. Barnstone has chosen such jewels as "The Secret Gospel of Mark."
This book is especially for readers who have wondered what else there was besides what was in the Bible.
Rating: 4
Summary: Revealing, in a way the author didn't intend!
Comment: This volume, in it's summary of the ancient Haggadah (Jewish myth creation, invovling Lilith, 7 heavens, etc.), Early Kabbalah, New Testament Apocrypha, and Gnostic scriptures, was intriguing to say the least.
Mr. Barnstone clearly asserts in the introduction that if history were altered in favor of these scriptures, that we would have these in our Holy Bible today.
However, what I found were some shocking similarities between Roman Catholicism and Pagan traditions. In the same way Solstice became Christmas, and Easter into a celebration of Christ's ressurection, religions that were forced into the Church under various popes and rulers had no option but to submit 'holy scripture' of their own.
Some of these truths went on to form extra-biblical views found in Roman Catholicism and other denominations. 7 heavens, Prayers to Martyred Saints, Purgatory, it's not in the Bible folks! It's in "The Other Bible"!
I reccomend this book to advanced thinkers and armchair theologians who want a better understanding of early christian influences. But do be careful of Mr. Barnstone's radical assumptions.
Rating: 5
Summary: enlightening
Comment: wonderful and diverse text. shows the wonderful diversity of early christianity, apocolyptic jewish sects, and mystery relegions at the cusp of the common era. exceptional veiw of christanity before catholicism.
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Title: The Nag Hammadi Library in English : Revised Edition by James M. Robinson ISBN: 0060669357 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 21 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Lost Books of the Bible by Rh Value Publishing ISBN: 0517277956 Publisher: Testament Pub. Date: 08 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Secret Teachings of Jesus : Four Gnostic Gospels by Marvin Meyer ISBN: 0394744330 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels ISBN: 0679724532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup, Joseph Rowe, Jacob Needleman ISBN: 0892819111 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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