The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a ...
When Oscar Cullman announced the discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (CHRISTIANITY TODAY, April 19, 1959, issue), popular newspapers and magazines spread sensational reports of the ...
There's a useful debunking of some of the historical crapulence in the Da Vinci Code over at Slate. An important point: In Brown's scheme, the Gnostics are also the suppressed source of the true ...
Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history. In Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, villain ...
No matter what you think about the book or the movie -- love it, hate it or totally sick of hearing about it -- "The Da Vinci Code" has sparked a debate about the nature of faith and the foundations ...
When National Geographic unveiled the Gospel of Judas this month, the narrator in the accompanying television documentary solemnly announced: “It tells a different story. One that could challenge our ...
Over 70 years ago, several Gnostic texts were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. This gallery delves into the history of these ancient books and the controversy that surrounds them. Could they really ...
Imagine a Bible that begins like this: God said, “I am the Lord thy God, and there are no other gods but me.” Then a voice came out of the deepest heaven and said, “Thou liest, god of the blind!” Or ...
It's a clever scene in a powerful show — Emma Stone and Jonah Hill's Maniac, you might have heard the buzz about it — but don't take it as a history lesson. Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Maniac ...