Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis 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…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is also possibly the lost Gospel of Bartholomew, there is no consensus, however, this document is dated later on in antiquity anyway (200-550AD). There are signs such as the veneration of Mary that give us a good indication that this document was written later. This manuscript exists in Greek, Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis text is made up of three Coptic fragments with a date difficult to establish. The best manuscript is 12th century, but the older ones have undecided dates on them. Likely 5th-6th century is where it sits (200-550AD is the span scholars generously give as some believe it to be Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis document is like many of it’s Gnostic counterparts: a second century text (scholars dating it anywhere between 130-170AD), contains conversations between Jesus and in this case Judas to which esoteric knowledge is provided. But what additions are made is telling the Jesus story from Judas’ perspective of Jesus’ crucifixion. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Gnostic text from a Sethian sect was discovered with the Nag Hammadi collection in Egypt 1945. They found a few copies with them dated 4th century, with scholars predicting the text is of 2nd century origin (120-180AD). The story has Jesus, after the ascension, appearing to John and passing Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is not the Gospel of Thomas, this is something else with some reckoning this is the Gospel of Matthias that was lost. It was discovered with the Nag Hammadi Gnostic library found in Egypt 1945. The Book of Thomas the Contender reportedly records a conversation between Jesus and “Judas Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis document dated outside the Apostolic era between 110-160AD is talked about by Clement of Alexandria in 210AD. Origen, Eusebius, Ambrose and Jerome also mention a document named Gospel of Matthias, with an assumption that the two are the same document. We only retain a few quotes from Clement as Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is another document found with the Nag Hammadi collection dug up in 1945 in Egypt. This document was bound up with the Gospel of Thomas but is not a sayings document, more a collection of Gnostic teachings. We do not know the name of the document, but since Phillip Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUncovered in 1896, this supposed Gospel was discovered with other papyrus manuscripts and other manuscripts have since been discovered to help us piece together this document, yet we still don’t have a complete manuscript. Scholars have dated this work from the mid to late second century generally with no one Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis document, dated in the 4th century is actually a medieval Latin text written by the “Order of Nicodemus” Within is there is a section called “The Acts of Pilate”. Reasons for rejection/non-inclusion Many documents were “claiming” to be from Pilate, some are mentioned in Justin Martyr’s (103-165AD) preserved works. Read more…