The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus

by Anne Starr Kreps

In the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, a crucified Jesus is depicted as wrapped in a scroll and reading aloud the contents of his heart as he dies. This is just one of many strange appearances of the physical book in this text and in the surviving fragments of Valentinus. Through its representations of the written word, Anne Kreps argues, the Gospel of Truth promoted a living...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253876
• ISBN13: 9780812253870
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"