Q is the designation for a gospel that no longer exists, but many think must have existed at one time. In fact, even though no copy of this gospel has survived independently, some nineteenth-century ...

This book opens with the lines, "These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and the twin, Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down." Then there follows a list of the sayings of Jesus. Now ...

The Gospel of Thomas, an ancient manuscript featuring 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, paints a different picture of the religious leader than traditional gospels, coming amid reports that Jesus' ...

The Gospel of Thomas has been the hot extrabiblical text this year, judging from the best seller status of Elaine Pagels's Beyond Belief and strong sales for translations and interpretations of this ...

In this majestic new book, Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels) ranges panoramically over the history of early Christianity, demonstrating the religion's initial tremendous diversity and its narrowing to ...

The Gospel of Thomas, an ancient manuscript that houses 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, paints a different picture of the religious leader than traditional scriptures. Instead of a figure performing ...

One of the biggest pieces missing from biblical accounts of Jesus’ life is his childhood. But apocryphal accounts, such as the Gospel of Thomas, do talk about Jesus’ reportedly miraculous early years.

"Had I known the Gospel Of Thomas," a Buddhist monk once told author Elaine Pagels, "I wouldn't have had to become a Buddhist." Presumably he was at least half joking, but the fact that he could say ...