The Nag Hammadi texts were discovered near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. They are gnostic works that present a worldview that denies the divinity of Christ and the goodness of creation. In 1945 a startling ...

But well over 40 of them were completely unknown until the discovery in Upper Egypt of the Gnostic library containing the Gospel of Thomas and 43 other apocryphal writings. What has the study of ...

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 ...