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 ...

When National Geographic unveiled the Gospel of Judas this month, the narrator in the accompanying television documentary solemnly announced: “It tells a different story. One that could challenge our ...

Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

Gnosticism, the religious rival that lost out to orthodox Christianity in ancient times, has become fashionable again thanks to Dan Brown's huge-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code," along with the ...

Near the nexus of Hillhurst Avenue and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards, Bishop Stephan Hoeller has presided since 1977 at Ecclesia Gnostica, the tiny, incense-infused chapel of the Gnostic Society.

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 ...

(UNDATED) From all the hullabaloo in the press over the “Gospel of Judas,” one might easily conclude that something like the plot of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” had suddenly been demonstrated as ...

Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history. In Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, villain ...

“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 ...