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A vast collection of materials and audio lectures dealing with Gnosis and Gnosticism, both ancient and modern. The site includes the Gnostic Society Library with the complete Nag Hammadi Library, and a large collection of other primary Gnostic scriptures and documents.

Coptic Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth (Valentine), in English and Spanish translation, with introduction, textual notes and commentary.

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature Archive Notes A wide range of texts -- some showing Gnostic tendancy or influence -- survived within the Christian tradition outside of the New Testiment canon. This section of the library offers a large collection of these documents. Note that texts discovered in the Nag Hammadi collection are listed in the Nag ...

Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings TERMS Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha F.A.Q. Is God real more... Similar Sites Letters of Pontius Pilate Other Links Negev Script Welcome To Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings. I have an interest in all documents that even might be classified as Holy. While there are a lot of sites out there that have portions of what I am interested in, this ...

Elaine H. Pagels: The Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion Princeton University This book opens with the lines, These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and the twin, Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down. Then there follows a list of the sayings of Jesus. Now this raises all kinds of questions. Did Jesus have a twin brother Actually the name Thomas Didymos -- ...

Christian Research Institute Journal Return to Index Page - This File/ Plain Text The Gnostic Gospels: Part Two Are They Authentic by Douglas Groothuis from the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1991, page 15. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller. In the first installment of this two-part series, I outlined the stark contrasts between the gnostic Jesus and the ...

Elaine H. Pagels: The Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion Princeton University The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a small town in the barren stretches of upper Egypt. They took their camels and rode up to a cliff ...

This document was found by Prof. Morton Smith in 1958 at the Mar Saba monastery, southeast of Jerusalem. In the document, authoritatively attributed to Clement of Alexandria, a "Secret Gospel of Mark" is mentioned. Clement presents fragments from the text of this secret gospel which he claims is in the custody of the Church in Alexandria, but which is kept secret.

Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament by James Akin I get a lot of requests for a list of the references the New Testament makes to the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. Unfortunately, giving a list is not such a simple affair since it is not always obvious whether something is a genuine reference. Hebrews 11:35 is an indisputable reference to 2 Maccabees 7, but many are ...

What are the Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible The early Christian Church used the same Greek-language Scriptures as the Jews of the time (some of whom spoke no Hebrew), the so-called Septuagint, which consisted of the books of what we now call the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, or Deuterocanonical Books. In about 90 CE, the Jewish Canon of Scripture began to be finalized, and today it ...

Apocrypha: a Fresh Look, Apocrypha of the Bible, Apocrypha, why rejected

The Old Testament Canon Who has the right canon The canon of the Old Testament is the list of books that make up the Old Testament. Protestants and Catholics have different ideas about which books belong to the canon of the Old Testament, and the Eastern Orthodox have yet another opinion -- so one naturally is lead to ask the question, which is right In this discussion I intend to focus on the ...

Deuterocanonical (Apocryphal) Books Often people ask why Catholics use the Deuterocanonical books, and many Protestants do not. For the most part there is nothing in the Deuterocanonical books that would separate different forms of Christianity, except for two passages. In 2 Maccabees chapter 12, they pray for the souls of the dead. This passage is significant in that it contradicts ...