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Reviewed on February 15, 2005
Pagels, a prominent religious scholar, presents the codification of the New Testament in the early church. In 1945 near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, a cache of heretofore unknown Christian writings was discovered. The common belief is that these writings, suppressed by Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons (c.180 C.E.), were as he had described them: less than the Gospels of Mat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
