The Everything Gnostic Gospels Book (Everything®) by Meera Lester

Author:Meera Lester [Lester, Meera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2008-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

The Obscure Texts Scrutinized

When Quispel produced the photograph of the first page of the Gospel of Thomas and the translation in 1956, his pronouncements generated intense excitement and interest in ancient Christianity and the Gnostics. He asserted that the Gospel of Thomas might have been written quite early in the first century. Other scholars say that some of the sayings found in that Gnostic gospel may actually predate the canonical gospels and belong in even earlier traditions, perhaps within twenty or so years after the ascension of Jesus, or roughly A.D. 50 to A.D. 100.

The translations and commentaries on the Gnostic scriptures discovered at Nag Hammadi are a result of intense academic scrutiny and dedication to the work. In their wide diversity, those texts shed light for the modern world on those who collected the library — they were early Christians involved in a radical movement. Their obscure texts often contained meanings that were obvious and at the same time secret. Scholars scrutinizing the texts and writing commentaries are careful to place the Nag Hammadi library in its ancient philosophical and religious traditions and settings. For out of that world arose the belief in transcendence central to Christianity.

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