![]() ![]() These gospels were not neutral documents but were written from the perspective of a particular community or understanding of the Christian message. ![]() The various gospels took stories, collections of saying and other Christian oral traditions and reduced them to writing. The canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were only four of many gospels that were circulated in the early Christian community. The value of the book is not so much in the gospel text itself, which is available for free on the internet but in the commentary by the author which places the text in the setting of the Gnostic worldview in which it was written. The gospel text is the surviving fragment of an apparently longer document that was lost over the centuries. The audio book is the text of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and a commentary by the author. ![]() Insightful look into early Christian Gnosticism ![]()
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