By the 1970s, however, scholars were working on the texts in earnest. The publication in 1978 of The Nag Hammadi Library (HarperCollins), edited by James M. Robinson, a professor emeritus of religion ...

While the individual texts in the various codices found near Nag Hammadi have been studied and discussed, relatively little attention has been paid to the motives underlying their original selection ...

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, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Since 1932, the quarterly journal, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, has been the chief outlet for the American ...

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. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...

The discovery of the Nag Hammadi collection brought ancient Gnostic writings to light. In 1945 an Arab peasant named Muhammed Ali and his brothers discovered a jar at the base of a cliff near the town ...

Sixty years ago this December, texts that came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library were discovered in the Egyptian desert. The leather-bound sheets of papyrus, now housed in a Cairo museum, include ...