Alexandria: Search for Hidden Gnosis:
The Gnostics
“Gnosticism” Salon
Rosicrucian Park
San Jose, CA
June 14, 2005
(Listings in bold indicate good starting places for study.)
1. Ancient Gnosticism:
Primary Sources:
Barnstone, Willis, ed. The Other Bible: Ancient Alternative Scriptures. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1984.
Barnstone, Willis and Marvin Meyer, eds. The Gnostic Bible. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.
Ehrman, Bart D., ed. Lost Scriptures: Books that did not make it into the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
James, Montague Rhodes, ed. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses, with other narratives and fragments. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Klimkeit, Hans Joachim, ed. Gnosis on the Silk Road. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993. Persian Gnostic and Manichaean texts.
Layton, Bentley, ed. The Gnostic Scriptures: Ancient Wisdom for the New Age. New York: Doubleday, 1987. Part of the Anchor Bible Reference Library.
Lüdeman, Gerd and Martina Janssen. Suppressed Prayers: Gnostic Spirituality in Early Christianity. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998.
Mead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stow). Fragments of a Faith Forgotten; the Gnostics, a Contribution to the Study of the Origins of Christianity. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1960 (1900).
Meyer, Marvin, ed. The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2005.
Meyer, Marvin & Harold Bloom, eds. Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2004.
Miller, Robert J., ed. The Complete Gospels. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1994.
Robinson, James M., ed. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990 Revised Edition. (There is also a 4th Revised edition 1997 from Brill Academic Publishers.)
Secondary Sources:
Churton, Tobias. The Gnostics. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1987 (1997).
Doresse, Jean. The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An introduction to the Gnostic Coptic manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion. New York: The Viking Press, 1960.
Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: the Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Filoramo, Giovanni. A History of Gnosticism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
Freke, Timothy & Peter Gandy. Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians. New York: Harmony Books, 2001.
Goehring, James E., and James McConkey Robinson. Gnosticism & the Early Christian World: In Honor of James M. Robinson. Sonoma, CA: Polebridge Press, 1990.
Hanegraff, Wouter J. and Roelof van den Broek. Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Holst, Gustav. The Hymn of Jesus. (op. 37). In album The Cloud Messenger / The Hymn of Jesus. Chandros Records Limited. CD CHAN 8901. Della Jones, mezzo-soprano; London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra: Richard Hickox, conductor. Also available on Malcolm Sargent conducts English Music. Dutton Laboratories #8012, 1995.
Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity. 3rd ed.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
King, Karen. Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1988
__________. What is Gnosticism? Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Kingsland, William. The Gnosis or Ancient Wisdom in the Christian Scriptures. Lower Lake CA: Solos Press, (1937) n.d.
MacGregor, Geddes. Gnosis: A Renaissance in Christian Thought. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1979.
Mead, G.R.S. Echoes from the Gnosis, 100-Year Anniversary Edition. Wheaton: Quest Books, 2006. G.R.S. Mead’s 11 classic works on Gnosis, including: The Hymn of Jesus: Echoes from the Gnosis. Wheaton IL: Quest Books, 1907 (1973).
Merkur, Daniel. Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions. Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press, 1993.
Needleman, Jacob. The Sword of Gnosis: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Tradition, Symbolism. New York: Penguin/Arkana, 1974.
Pagels, Elaine. Beyond Belief: the Secret Gospel of Thomas. New York: Random House, 2003.
___________. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage Books, 1981.
___________. The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992.
Roukema, Riemer. Gnosis and Faith in Early Christianity. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.
Rudolph, Kurt. Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism. Translation edited by Robert McLachlan Wilson. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.
Van den Broek, Roelf. Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity. Leiden New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.
Williams, Michael Allen. Rethinking “Gnosticism”: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Mary Magdalene and early Christianity:
Boer, Esther de. The Gospel of Mary: beyond a Gnostic and a Biblical Mary Magdalene. London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2004.
Brock, Ann. Mary Magdalene, the First Apostle: the Struggle for Authority. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.
Haskins, Susan. Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor. Old Saybrook CT: Konecky & Konecky, 1993.
King, Karen L. The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 2003.
Leloup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2002.
Marjanen, Annti. The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and related documents. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1996. Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Thomas -- III. Mary Magdalene in the Sophia of Jesus Christ -- IV. Mary Magdalene in the Dialogue of the Savior -- V. Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Mary -- VI. Mary Magdalene in the First Apocalypse of James -- VII. Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Philip -- VIII. Mary Magdalene in Pistis Sophia -- IX. Mary Magdalene in the Great Questions of Mary -- X. Mary Magdalene in the Manichaean Psalm-book -- XI. Conclusion.
Meyers, Marvin, ed. The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2004.
Schaberg, Jane. The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament. New York: Continuum, 2002. Contents: Virginia Woolf and Mary Magdalene: thinking back through the Magdalene -- Meditations at Migdal -- Silence, conflation, distortion, legends -- The woman who understood (too) completely: the gnostic/apocryphal Magdalene -- The Christian testament's Mary Magdalene: scholarly versions, explorations, erasures -- Converging possibilities -- Mary Magdalene as successor to Jesus.
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