What Muhammad 'All discovered at Nag Hammadi is, apparently, a library of writings, almost all of them gnostic. Although they claim to offer secret teaching, many of these texts refer to the ...

Early fathers of the church despised such schools of thought and ordered the burning of many gnostic texts, which spurred the extinction of Gnosticism as a practice. Scholars had to resort to ...

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 ...