Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book

Together with Studies on John and Christian Origins, the Slavonic Josephus’ Account of John and Jesus, and John and the Fourth Gospel Proem. Contents: Foreword; John the Baptizer and Christian Origins; From the John-Book of the Mandaeans; The Story of the Breach with Judaism; Some Typical Extracts; The Slavonic Josephus’ Account of the Baptists and Jesus; The Fourth Gospel Proem. This rare book gives the Gnostic’s perspective of John from the inner or psychic story, the prophetical, and the imaginative history of ideas