Scholar Elaine Pagels explores these documents and their implications. From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage Books, New York: 1979 pp. xiii-xxiii In December 1945 an Arab peasant made ...

There are different texts in the opus of material that we call gnostic that are presentations of the teachings of Jesus or the person of Jesus. Some of those texts, such as the Gospel of Thomas ...

Could there be deliberate concealment? The Infancy Gospel of Thomas presents stories about Jesus’s youth, dating back to the ...

But do esoteric Gnostic texts or lost gospels mean that early Christians shared no common “core” of belief? Such popular scholarship too often overlooks the fact that a common denominator of ...