The Gnostic Gospels The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament.

The Gospel of Judas is pretty much just like Deathly Hallows, except Dumbledore is Jesus, Snape is Judas, and we’re all Harry Potter.After two millennia of people using “Judas” as a synonym ...

A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this ...

LeCompte said apocryphal gospels refers to the general category of spiritually based writings. Some of these texts are canonical -- considered Scripture by the church -- as well as Gnostic.

Other items in the Gospel of Judas are more typical of Gnostic treatises. It incorporates familiar Gnostic motifs in a long cosmological excursus toward the end of the dialogue (47, 14-53, 7).

The Princeton professor and author of such titles as 'The Gnostic Gospels' and 'Beyond Belief' and more spent seven years on this book. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 81°F.

Some 20 years after she wrote The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels penned the beautifully written Beyond Belief. In a particularly candid and confessional part of the book, ...

The Gnostic heretics who used the Gospel of Thomas, though they probably did not write it, could find no scriptural basis for their teaching and faced the opposition of the entire orthodox Church ...