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 ...

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

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.