All kinds of literature from the early Christian era, a whole discovery of text rather like the New Testament but also very different. The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of umbrella term ...

The early Gnostics claimed their message came directly from Jesus through the apostles. Many of the later pseudo-Gospels of ...

alentinianism was a prominent variety of early Christianity starting in the 2nd century CE. Some call it a form of Gnosticism. But what is Valentinianism all about?

But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a library used by a community of Gnostics ...