Willis Barn­stone is a poet, trans­la­tor, and reli­gious schol­ar. Author of THE GNOS­TIC BIBLE, CAFE DE L’AUBE A PARIS (French), and THE RESTORED NEW TES­TA­MENT, he is a dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus of com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture and bib­li­cal stud­ies at Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty. He lives in Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia, and in Paris.