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Using a synthesis of scriptural material drawn from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha , The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hammadi Library, and some of the world's great poetry, as in the beginning, it describes and teaches a single moral Law,
Lance's Blog: Elaine Pagels
One of the foremost scholars of ancient Christianity is Elaine Pagels of Princeton University. She is known primarily for her work with the Gnostic Gospels, and the Nag Hammadi Library, which was a collection of ancient Christian writings discovered in the Egyptian desert in 1945. As a young scholar, she had access to the Nag Hammadi library, and did scholarly research on the Gnostic gospels. She published her landmark popular book, The Gnostic Gospels , in 1979. Not only did Pagels study the Gnostic Gospels but she also found them personally meaningful. She likes their emphasis on finding the divine within one's self, and the subversive nature of the Gnostic Gospels. Pagels notes in her writings and interviews, that if one can find the divine within one's self, that makes the Church or Church authority superfluous. She hypothesizes that this may be one reason that Church authorities suppressed these ancient Gospels. In particular, she notes Athanasius ordering the burning of Gnostic or Secret gospels, and his Easter letter listing the 27 books of the New Testament as we have it today. Some of the monks though, liked the Gnostic gospels, and one such monk buried his treasure of Gnostic Gospels at Nag Hammadi. The Gnostic form of Christianity emphasized finding the divine within one's self more than beliefs about Christ or God, according to Pagels, and that it was not unlike Buddhist spirituality. She also believes that early Christianity was quite rich in its diversity, and that there were several different ways of understanding Jesus and his message. She also notes that women had authority in some of these ancient Christian communities, though not in the proto-orthodox communities after the second century. Pagels herself admits that Christianity probably endured because of the coherence of orthodoxy. She even says in her book Beyond Belief that the orthodox understanding of Christianity was likely winning even before it was established by church and imperial authorities. But she also finds the spirituality of the Gnostic Gospels compelling and that it was a vital force in ancient Christianity. Early Gnostic leaders, such as Valentinus and Marcion enjoyed large followings and were a challenge to ancient orthodoxy. As William Barclay notes, Gnostics were part of the ancient church. Pagels experienced personal tragedy in the 1980's as she lost both her six year old son, and several months later, her husband.
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The Nag Hammadi Library After Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration... 
Nag Hammadi Codex III: The Dialogue of the Savior - The Coptic Gnostic Library - 1984 (Nag Hammadi Studies): 
While it is a skill to speak, it is also a skill to be silent. (From the The Sentences of Sextus - Nag Hammadi Library.)
Just read some of the Gnostic Gospels from the Nag Hammadi Library. Weirdest crap I have ever read.Nag Hammadi Library - Bookshelf
The Nag Hammadi library in English
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The Nag Hammadi Library
Takes a look at the history and debate surrounding the collection of ancient books containing religious and hermetic texts, works of moral maxims, Apocryphal texts, and a rewriting of Plato's Republic.
Gnostic Society Library: The Nag Hammadi Library
Provides alphabetical and codex indexes of the gospels and writings.
Nag Hammadi library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nag Hammadi library [1] is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. ...
Nag Hammadi Library Alphabetical Index
The Nag Hammadi Library. Alphabetical Index. Several of the major texts in the Nag Hammadi collection have more than one English translation; where ...
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Nag Hammadi Library Before the publication of the Berlin Codex 8502, resources for the study of gnosticism were almost entirely limited to the