The Infancy Gospel of Thomas tells the story of Jesus as a child. What happens in this story, and why was it rejected from ...

The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...

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 ...

The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...

Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program today at Trinity Episcopal ...

A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this theory ...