Reading Time: 2 minutes A late on document far beyond the councils 450AD+, this infancy Gospel like they other ones was written to fill the gap of curiosity many people had about Jesus’ life. It was first likely written in Syriac and translated to Arabic. IT borrows heavily from the Infancy Gospel of James Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dated to the mid to late second century (140-180AD), the Gospel of Truth was discovered in the Nag Hammadi library with other Gnostic texts in 1945. The Gospel of Truth is connected with Valentinus, a gnostic teacher who lived 100-160AD wrote this poetic homily, so it’s not really a gospel Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document was found with (wait for it) with the other Nag Hammadi texts in Egypt in 1945. Sophia is believed to mean the word “wisdom” and claims to be to do with a conversation between Jesus and his disciples. Scholars date this anywhere between 150-250AD, never earlier generally. Reasons Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document is yet another found with the Nag Hammadi collection in 1945, Egypt. The text is damaged but it is discernible that it’s a dialogue between Jesus and some of his followers or sayings like the Gospel of Thomas. Scholars reckon, based on how the text jumps around from Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a document that’s been around for more than a hundred years prior to the Nag Hammadi library. It is Gnostic, has at least two scribes styles, and is in Coptic. The name has two potential meanings but scholars disagree as to it’s translation. It contains passages relating to Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Well.. impressive name to say the least, sounds a bit red indian tribe but I’ll bite. There are two versions of this document that were discovered among the papyri of the Nag Hammadi library in Egypt. It is considered another Gnostic Sethians document of the second century (120-180AD). Reasons for Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document dated anywhere between 180-300AD was found with the Nag Hammadi documents in Egypt 1945. It is an example of Sethian Gnosticism by a group who worshipped Adam’s son, Seth who they saw Jesus as the second coming of Seth. Reasons for rejection/non-inclusion Written outside the apostolic age Written Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Gospel of the Egyptians is another lost document that scholars at the earliest put between 120-150AD. Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus and Epiphanius of Salamis tell us all we know of this document. It’s either some form of narrative or a collection of sayings, we just have no idea. Reasons Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document, used by Marcion a famous heretic of his time so it’s dated around 130-150AD. We do not have a copy of the text, but the church fathers and apologists such as Tertullian extensively criticised such a Gospel. Marcion’s Gospel scholars suggest is a clear alteration of Luke’s Gospel Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document has no surviving manuscripts today, not even a scrap! What we know about this supposed Gospel come from the letters of Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Hegemonius (all of whom described Basilides as a heretic). Basilides was an early Gnostic teacher in Alexandria, Egypt between 117-138AD. The Read more…