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 ...

In this gnostic gospel, Mary Magdalene appears as a disciple, singled out by Jesus for special teachings. In this excerpt, the other disciples are discouraged and grieving Jesus' death.

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 ...

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