Credit: Proesi, CC BY-SA, 2.0 DE Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition whose most profound influence is Greek philosophy, particularly the ideas of Neoplatonism, Gnosticism and Aristotelianism. With ...

An examination of the contested category known as 'gnosticism,' the texts found at Nag Hammadi, and the challenges posed by this material to our expectations as we attempt to understand developments ...

This collection includes a number of “Gospel”-type documents written for Gnostic Christian communities. The Gospel of Philip, for example, states that “the companion (koinōnos) of the ...

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do.

“First of all, the others were much more specific. They were either about the Gnostic Gospels or Christian antisemitism or sex and politics. This one came after I was teaching about how ...

Unlike the 30 or so dynasties that preceded it, the Greco-Macedonian regime has no ordinal number, but is called Ptolemaic after its founder, Ptolemy I, and the Ptolemies who descended from him ...

"Over the years, with the discovery of the gospel of Mary in the late 19th century and the gnostic gospels in the middle of the 20th century — as well as painstaking biblical scholarship — a ...

Instead of being the ultimate traitor, this Gnostic gospel suggests he was actually Jesus’s closest confidant and friend, the only one who really got that Jesus wanted to escape his physical body. So ...

Since publishing “The Gnostic Gospels” in 1979, Pagels has been a voice crying in the wilderness of academia but heard in the homes of lay readers. Her vast knowledge has always been tempered ...

In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets, including the sun ...

In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets, including the sun ...