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A collection of ancient esoteric texts
 
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MichaelLibrary | 5 autres critiques | Jan 29, 2024 |
Gnosticisme was een brede religieuze beweging van het eerste millennium. De aanhangers zochten redding door
kennis en persoonlijke religieuze ervaring. Gnostische geschriften bieden opvallend
perspectieven op zowel het vroegchristelijke als het niet-christelijke denken. Bijvoorbeeld,
sommige gnostische teksten suggereren dat god zowel als moeder als als moeder moet worden gevierd.
Die zelfkennis is het allerhoogste pad naar het goddelijke. Alleen in de
de afgelopen vijftig jaar is duidelijk geworden hoe ver de gnostische invloed zich heeft verspreid.
Wat een prachtige verzameling geschriften over oude en middeleeuwse religies.
 
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MaSS.Library | Aug 8, 2023 |
Disclaimer: I only listened to the CDs.

A few good bits, lots and lots of waffle. Like with canonical Christianity, I am much more interested in the ideas and realities surrounding the religion than with its poorly written rambling texts.

I think these CDs would be better for someone who already had a great familiarity with the material and some of its 'hidden' (i.e. invented) meanings.
 
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GirlMeetsTractor | 2 autres critiques | Mar 22, 2020 |
LÍRICA .POEMAS ARCAICOS
LIRICA POEMAS CORALES Y MONÓDICOS POR SAFO

Salvo algunos libros de Píndaro y de Teognis, todos los demás poetas líricos arcaicos nos han llegado de un modo terriblemente fragmentario. Apenas unos pocos poemas enteros y una gran cantidad dispersa de breves fragmentos es lo que nos queda de la poesía mélica en diversos metros y ritmos. Sólo unos cuantos versos truncos y sueltos de lo que fue una magnífica tradición lírica, unas cuantas chispas y pavesas de lo que fue una espléndida hoguera. Pero aun así, esos pocos fragmentos resultan un testimonio esencial por su brillantez y sensibilidad literaria.
Excepto Píndaro, Baquílides y los yambógrafos y elegíacos, todos los fragmentos de la antigua poesía griega anterior a la época helenística están reunidos aquí, traducidos e introducidos con máxima fidelidad. Tanto los fragmentos y poemas de tradición antigua como los aparecidos en papiros hace pocos años y restituidos a esta tradición lírica, que intentamos perfilar a partir de ellos.
De un lado está la vieja tradición popular, de otro la espléndida lírica coral (aquí representada por Estesícoro, Alcmán, Íbico y Simónides), y de otro la lírica personal o monódica (los lesbios: Safo y Alceo; Anacreonte), y unos cuantos poetas menores, apenas unas siluetas y unos versos. Con todo, qué enorme el aroma poético de Safo o de Alceo, de Estesícoro o de Simónides de Quíos; cuántos ecos han suscitado algunas estrofas sáficas y anacreónticas; qué enigmáticas las tempranas canciones corales de Alcmán, y qué innovadoras versiones míticas las del arcaico Estesícoro.
La versión de F. R. Adrados demuestra un excelente conocimiento de toda esta poesía, de sus condicionantes históricos, de los últimos hallazgos y estudios, al servicio de una traducción precisa y exhaustiva de todo el repertorio de los primeros poetas líricos de Occidente.
 
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FundacionRosacruz | 2 autres critiques | Jan 24, 2018 |
LIRICA POEMAS CORALES Y MONÓDICOS POR SAFO

Salvo algunos libros de Píndaro y de Teognis, todos los demás poetas líricos arcaicos nos han llegado de un modo terriblemente fragmentario. Apenas unos pocos poemas enteros y una gran cantidad dispersa de breves fragmentos es lo que nos queda de la poesía mélica en diversos metros y ritmos. Sólo unos cuantos versos truncos y sueltos de lo que fue una magnífica tradición lírica, unas cuantas chispas y pavesas de lo que fue una espléndida hoguera. Pero aun así, esos pocos fragmentos resultan un testimonio esencial por su brillantez y sensibilidad literaria.
Excepto Píndaro, Baquílides y los yambógrafos y elegíacos, todos los fragmentos de la antigua poesía griega anterior a la época helenística están reunidos aquí, traducidos e introducidos con máxima fidelidad. Tanto los fragmentos y poemas de tradición antigua como los aparecidos en papiros hace pocos años y restituidos a esta tradición lírica, que intentamos perfilar a partir de ellos.
De un lado está la vieja tradición popular, de otro la espléndida lírica coral (aquí representada por Estesícoro, Alcmán, Íbico y Simónides), y de otro la lírica personal o monódica (los lesbios: Safo y Alceo; Anacreonte), y unos cuantos poetas menores, apenas unas siluetas y unos versos. Con todo, qué enorme el aroma poético de Safo o de Alceo, de Estesícoro o de Simónides de Quíos; cuántos ecos han suscitado algunas estrofas sáficas y anacreónticas; qué enigmáticas las tempranas canciones corales de Alcmán, y qué innovadoras versiones míticas las del arcaico Estesícoro.
La versión de F. R. Adrados demuestra un excelente conocimiento de toda esta poesía, de sus condicionantes históricos, de los últimos hallazgos y estudios, al servicio de una traducción precisa y exhaustiva de todo el repertorio de los primeros poetas líricos de Occidente.
 
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FundacionRosacruz | 2 autres critiques | Jan 24, 2018 |
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Meleos | 2 autres critiques | Jul 30, 2017 |
A good and clear translation of a great variety of texts from different times, religious movements, and places and the best sampler of what an alternate history Bible might have looked like (if Christianity had never existed, or a more Jewish form had won out, or a more Gnostic one etc.) Contains Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish mysticism, Christian literature, Gnostic works, poems and much more.

Full of a splendid assortment of wonders (and a helpful selection of rarities like the Odes of Solomon) grouped by type of book. (Read the Acts of the Apostles and wondering what the deed-books of other disciples read like? Read on. Read the Book of Revelation and wondering what other books of its ilk read like -- they were a genre. Read on.) Nearly every work I would wish to give a reader to show the variety and splendor of non-Biblical literature is here, a thoughtfully chosen anthology.

Best read in small doses for its sheer strangeness and variety, but warmly recommended.

-Kushana
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Kushana | 5 autres critiques | Dec 27, 2010 |
A contemporary translation of a selection Gnostic texts, including many from the Nag Hammadi Library. Includes helpful, up-to-date introductory essays. A valuable collection of texts from the spectrum of ancient and medieval Gnosticism.

-Kushana
 
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Kushana | 2 autres critiques | Jan 30, 2009 |
Facing page Greek and English. This book has an excellent introduction to Sappho and her work. There's not much left to us after the Christians destroyed what they could. Many of these are only fragments, starting and ending abruptly. Some are only a few words. Read her if you haven't. I found Barnstone's translations lyrical and easy to read.
 
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aulsmith | Feb 23, 2008 |
Excellent book to use to teach how the canon was formed. However, even they leave out texts like the Gospel of Mary.
 
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medievalmama | 5 autres critiques | Jan 28, 2008 |
Excellent collection of Early Christian era texts. Contains Gnostic, Dead Sea Scroll, Apocrypha and Jewish texts. Pretty obvious why most of these didn't make it into the Christian Bible. But these are valuable texts that rival the bible in importance when we consider the evolution of religious thought in the formative period of the Christian Church. The Gnostics are the most heavily represented. Several branchs of Gnostic texts are included here. It would be nice to see the Nag Hammadi books represented a little better however. While the texts of the christian authors are interesting, the introductory matter to each of the individual texts makes this Bible well worth buying. Barnstones introductions help bring this disparate group of Christian thinkers into perspective.½
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ahystorian | 5 autres critiques | Feb 25, 2007 |
The back jacket says it all: "Here is the most inclusive collection of modern European poetry ever published in America. It contains poems by every important European poet (except for Cavafy, who couldn't be included for reasons of copyright), including works by Nobel Prize winners Pasternak, Quasimodo, and Seferis. It also contains striking works by the brilliant new voices in European poetry, including works by such poets as Gunter Grass and Yevtushenko. Each poet is represented by an unusually generous selection of his works. Here is the work of the foremost poet/translators of our day, including Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur and W. D. Snodgrass, and such internationally famous writers as Stephen Spender, Thomas Merton and Samuel Beckett. What they have produced for this volume are not mere reflections of originals, but vital poems which form part of modern English and American literature."
 
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Shonamarie | May 16, 2016 |
07/14/2009: read 'THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS,' a text once considered part of the canon and wildly popular during Medieval times. '...a passion gospel purporting to be an official report of the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus.... one of the most dramatic and moving documents of early Christianity. Argumentative rather than spiritual, it reads like an exciting eyewitness report of murder, miracle, and resurrection.... a fabricated record of the third or fourth century written specifically as a pious counterblast to Pagan statements concerning Jesus.... Faith or disbelief makes one person's miracles another's sorcery.... In keeping with other works of the period, the Gospel is virulently anti-Jewish. It attempts editorially to dissociate Jesus as well as early biblical figures from Jewish identity.... the term 'Jews' becomes a stereotyping device to condemn a rival alien people.' (359-360)

From the first part, 'Acts of Pilate': Medieval romance writers invented the Holy Grail from legends about Joseph of Arimathaea, who claimed the body of Jesus and placed it in the tomb. Before that happened, though, Jewish leaders advocating for Jesus' death imprisoned Joseph. He is rescued by divine intervention. Joseph describes how, 'at midnight as I stood and prayed, the house where you shut me in was raised up the four corners, and I saw as it were a lightning flash in my eyes. Full of fear, I fell to the ground. And someone took me by the hand and raised me up from the place where I had fallen, and something moist like water flowed from my head to my feet, and the smell of fragrant oil reached my nostrils.' (372)

From the second part, 'Christ's Descent into Hell': Hades is the personification of death, a being who devours the dead and holds them in his gut. He and Satan are fearful that Jesus will steal all the dead from them and bring the dead up to heaven.
'Then Hades said to his demons: 'Make fast well and strongly the gates of brass and the bars of iron, and hold my locks, and stand upright and watch every point. For if he [the crucified Jesus] comes in, woe will seize us.'' (376)
Of course, Jesus breaks through all the brass and iron and redeems those lost souls who died before His coming. Then Hades and Satan squabble about who is to blame.
'And Hades took Satan and said to him: 'O Beelzebub, heir of fire and torment, enemy of the saints, through what necessity did you contrive that the King of glory should be crucified, so that he should come here and strip us naked? Turn and see that not one dead man is left in me, but that all which you gained through the Tree of Knowledge you have lost through the tree of the cross.' (377)

10/14/2008: read the 'Infancy Gospels' -- of James, Matthew, Thomas, as well as the Latin & Arabic ones -- researching Mariology; also dipped into the 'Apocalypses.'
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Mary_Overton | 5 autres critiques | Jul 15, 2009 |
 
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davidweigel | 2 autres critiques | Nov 1, 2008 |
NO OF PAGES: 742 SUB CAT I: Apocrypha SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Excerpted ancient holy texts from Judeo-Christian traditions that were excluded from the official cannon of the Old and New Testaments. Selections from Jewish Pseudepigrapha, early Kabbalah, Haggadah, Midrash, Christian Apocrypha, and Gnostic scriptures.NOTES: SUBTITLE: Ancient Alternative Scriptures
 
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BeitHallel | 5 autres critiques | Feb 18, 2011 |
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