A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from ...

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 ...

The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of ... But back then there was no list of agreed gospels. There was no list of agreed doctrines. And there was no agreed upon structure.