The Dead Sea Scrolls got all the publicity. But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a ...
Peter Lampe, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg, begins his magisterial book by giving us a definite date for the break of Christians from the Roman synagogues—49 AD, when the emperor Claudius ...
Book Description: A collection of extra-biblical scriptures written by the gnostics, updated with three ancient texts including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas "The one indispensable book for ...