In December 1945, Muhammad Ali—not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt—uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. Muhammad and his brother broke it open and found books, ...

Bart D. Ehrman is something of a superman when it comes to scriptural studies. He’s a tireless and prolific scholar who has given us countless titles about the ...

In the early years of Christianity, several groups produced hidden or apocryphal gospels, alternative versions of the story of Christ. Sometimes these texts complemented the four canonical gospels of ...