Viral 'forbidden gospel' banned by the church likens Jesus to a New Age guru The Gospel of Thomas, a 2,000-year-old text that was left out of the Bible, contains 114 sayings that are attributed to ...

News World news Jesus of Nazareth You won't be able to forget this 'forbidden gospel' that paints Jesus in a shocking new light A banned book left out of the Bible more than 1,600 years ago has ...

It was unearthed inside a clay jar near Nag Hammadi, which Di Fabio believes was an attempt to conceal its revolutionary ideas from those in power who feared people gaining spiritual autonomy.

A book omitted from the Bible written more than 1,600 years ago could upheave the church as it features sayings from Jesus that challenge traditional teachings.

Why do all book covers look the same now? At first glance, I thought I’d already read this book. Then I realised I’d just seen the cover five times before.

Consider, she suggested, the Gospel of Philip—a third-century text discovered with similar documents near Nag Hammadi, in Egypt, in 1945—in which Magdalene is described as the woman “who ...

The discovery in 1945 of these noncanonical books in Nag Hammadi has an almost Indiana Jones-ish quality, as the cache of texts was found in an Egyptian cave more than 1,500 years after being ...

Using digital scanning, experts found a rare 13th-century manuscript fragment hiding in a 16th-century book binding, enriching Arthurian legend.

A medieval manuscript detailing the adventures of King Arthur and Merlin has been found within the bindings of a 16th-century book.

He was 83. Layton, the Goff Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Yale, made immeasurable contributions to the study of major textual ...

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries. By Andrew Paul Published Mar 31, 2025 12:01 PM EDT ...

The discovery of the Nag Hammadi collection brought ancient Gnostic writings to light.