Volume 25, Number 6 · April 20, 1978
The Gnostic Secrets
By W.H.C. Frend
The Laughing Savior: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library
by John Dart
Harper and Row, 154 pp., $7.95
The Nag Hammadi Library in English
edited by James M. Robinson
Harper and Row, 493 pp., $16.95
The story of the study of early Christianity since the 1930s is the story of great archaeological discoveries. The Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi, not far from Luxor in the Nile valley, take their place alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Manichaean texts found by Karl Schmidt in a Cairo antique shop in 1933 as among the major chance finds that have altered accepted views of the different traditions that helped to form Christianity in the early centuries AD.
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