Elaine H Pagels
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This book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945. The author explores historical and archeological sources to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of Christianity as we know it. She compares such sources as Thomas' gospel ... with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and...