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The Gnostic Gospels: Were They Illegal?
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July 16, 2019
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7:48Now PlayingA 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 Gospels legal?
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Bibliography:
Mark Goodacre
Nicola Denzey Lewis and Justine Ariel Blount
Brent Nongbri, "The Nag Hammadi Discovery Story,"
Tony Burke, "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About the Nag Hammadi Library?"
Lundhaug and Jenott, The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
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Coptic Magical Text
Book of the Dead
Byzantine Amuletic Armband
Codex V Interior
Gospel of Thomas manuscript
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