In December of 1945, a pair of brothers digging for fertilizer near limestone caves near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi discovered an ancient red earthenware jar containing 13 papyrus ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It opens with an account of an Arab peasant’s accidental discovery, in 1945, of a cache of thirteen leather-bound ...
In 1945, two brothers dug for natural fertilizer beneath a cliff of Jabal al-Tarif in Upper Egypt. Their tools struck an ancient ceramic jar filled with books, hand-sewn in the manner of antiquity.
Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program today at Trinity Episcopal ...
Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program April 2 at Trinity ...
On a Zoom call from her neat, book-lined home office in Princeton, New Jersey, Elaine Pagels explains how her latest book, “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” differs from her ...
BOB ABERNETHY: Now, a profile — and some religion history. It concerns the early Christian movement, and documents discovered nearly 60 years ago that reveal an early Christianity many find ...
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