Category Archives: Christian Apocrypha and “Gnosticism”

“Are we. . . to listen to her?”: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (NT Apocrypha 7)

“Forgery” (deceit) or “pseudonymity” (admiration): Ehrman’s take (NT Apocrypha 12)

“Gnosticism” as a scholarly category and the study of the diversity of Christianity (NT Apocrypha 15)

A guided tour of the heavens: The Ascension of Isaiah (NT Apocrypha 21)

Acts of John: Be thou like the bed-bugs (NT Apocrypha 5)

April D. DeConick’s The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says

Early Christian Apocrypha and the historiography of early Christianity (NT Apocrypha 6)

Jesus said: Let the children. . . get lost? (NT Apocrypha 11)

Jesus’ descent into hell and Satan’s conversation with Hades (NT Apocrypha 3)

Judas Iscariot as the “good guy”?: The Gospel of Judas

Peter (in the Pseudo-Clementines) on “false” passages in scripture (NT Apocrypha 4)

Peter vs. Simon Magus (alias Paul) in the Pseudo-Clementines (NT Apocrypha 17)

Sex and salvation in the Gospel of Philip

Sophia’s mistake: The Sophia of Jesus Christ and Eugnostos (NT Apocrypha 16)

Sophia’s repentance: The Apocryphon of John (NT Apocrypha 20)

The “savage” Marcion: Ethnographic stereotypes in attacking “heretics”

The Gospel of Judas and ethnographic stereotypes: The priests “sacrifice their own children”

The brilliant student and the humiliated teacher again: Smart young Apollonius of Tyana (NT Apocrypha 8)

The Coptic Gospel of Thomas and an interesting online debate (NT Apocrypha 13)

The Cursing Infant Jesus: Ancient vs. modern sensibilities (NT Apocrypha 1)

The Fall of the temple of Artemis according to the Acts of John (NT Apocrypha 14)

The Little Drummer Boy and Protevangelium of James (NT Apocrypha 2)

The morphing Jesus: Christology in the Acts of John (NT Apocrypha 19)

Thecla, Tertullian, and controversies over women’s leadership (NT Apocrypha 18)