In the face of such assertions any revaluation of Gnosticism holds meaning for students of the New Testament. The Gnostics, with their various systems, taught that the creator of the material ...

The term “gnostikoi” (from a root word meaning “knowledge-supplying ... and the rest of the gnostic beliefs flowed out of ...

Scholar Elaine Pagels explores these documents and their implications. From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage Books, New York: 1979 pp. xiii-xxiii In December 1945 an Arab peasant made ...