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 ...

The texts are copies of sacred writings from earlier centuries, when the church was struggling to disentangle itself from the early heresy of Gnosticism, which blended Christian ideas with ...

The term “gnostikoi” (from a root word meaning “knowledge-supplying”) was first used by Irenaeus of Lyons to describe a ...

The texts were a collection of 52 Christian and gnostic works that were compiled and written 200-300 CE. Among the Nag Hammadi texts was the Gospel of Thomas.