The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a ...

The Coptic script that reads Judas from the only known surviving copy of the long-lost Gospel of Judas. The Da Vinci Code” book and movie have tapped into and further stimulated popular interest in ...

There's a useful debunking of some of the historical crapulence in the Da Vinci Code over at Slate. An important point: In Brown's scheme, the Gnostics are also the suppressed source of the true ...

What does The Da Vinci Code have to do with a letter written by the archbishop of Alexandria in the year 367? As it turns out, quite a lot. Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long, fine thread ...

The recent release of a 1,700-year-old manuscript that conflictswith the traditional Easter story of Judas’ betrayal of Christ isbeing dismissed by some theologians and scholars as irrelevant tothe ...

“The marriage of ­­ Jesus and Mary Magdalene,” declares the character Leigh Teabing in the The Da Vinci Code, “is part of the historical record.” Drawing from Holy Blood, Holy Grail, one of his main ...

Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. Perusing the religious sections of major bookstores over the years, I've noticed a growing fascination with material that fell to the cutting-room floor as the ...