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The Gnostic Gospels: Were They Illegal?
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 into question. Were the Gnostic...
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas Explained
Stories about Jesus' birth are famous. But what about stories about Jesus' childhood? One early Christian text, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, invents some pretty crazy stories about the schoolboy Jesus. But what did this text mean for an...
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Gospel of Thomas: Why Is It Not In the Bible?
The Gospel of Thomas. It is a famous text, but what do we really know about it? And why didn't it make it into the New Testament canon?