I keep seeing people touting the idea that there are supposedly “lost words of Jesus”---for example, in pop-up ads. But the reality is that these are actually just ancient heresies being repackaged ...
The heresy-fighting bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, France, mentioned the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD, linking the writing to a Gnostic sect. Some two centuries later, Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, ...
Around 800, an unknown Irish monastery listed the appropriate liturgical readings for different feast days. For the mass of the circumcision, the text for the day came from the Gospel of James, ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls got all the publicity. But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a ...
Considered one of the most important discoveries of religious documents since the Nag Hammadi library in 1945, the Gospel of Judas was slowly decomposing for 16 years in a safe-deposit box in Long ...
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The Gnostic Gospels; Were They Illegal?
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 theory ...
Q is the designation for a gospel that no longer exists, but many think must have existed at one time. In fact, even though no copy of this gospel has survived independently, some nineteenth-century ...
In a few weeks, we’ll be bombarded with exhortations to see the movie of The Da Vinci Code, an entertaining yarn riddled with historical errors. Just in time for Easter, though, the focus isn’t on ...
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