An examination of the contested category known as 'gnosticism,' the texts found at Nag Hammadi, and the challenges posed by this material to our expectations as we attempt to understand developments ...

The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose ... like the New Testament but also very different. The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of umbrella term to cover the people ...

This mysterious poem, discovered among the gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi, is narrated by a female divine revealer. " 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is a marvelous, strange poem. It speaks in the ...

The Princeton professor and author of such titles as ‘The Gnostic Gospels’ and ‘Beyond Belief’ and more spent seven years on ...

In December 1945, Arab peasants were digging for a 'soft soil' near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. They hit a red earthenware jar and discovered ... ideas might have influenced the writing from India through ...

particularly since the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices in Egypt in 1945. This collection includes a number of “Gospel”-type documents written for Gnostic Christian communities.

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...