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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Even before The Da Vinci Code, themes from the Gnostic Gospels wound their way into films such as The Matrix trilogy and The Truman Show, said the Rev. Henry Straw, an ordained Methodist minister ...

Just before Christmas, an article appeared in The Washington Post comparing the Star Wars prequel trilogy to the “Gnostic gospels,” such as the “Gospel of Thomas” and the “Gospel of ...

Lost texts of Christianity have created scholarly excitement and news-media buzz. So why do some researchers say we’re using the wrong name for them? From the moment that Karen L. King entered ...

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.

Pagels’s The Gnostic Gospels (1979) is a liberal theologian’s cult classic—it has gone through more than 30 printings. Though not her first work of scholarship, it marked the beginning of a ...