Certainly the most prominent among these in the ancient church was Mary Magdalene. A series of spectacular 19th and 20th century discoveries of Christian texts in Egypt dating to the second and ...

Certainly the most prominent among these in the ancient church was Mary Magdalene. A series of spectacular 19th and 20th century discoveries of Christian texts in Egypt dating to the second and ...

Early Christian literature encompasses a wide range of texts that were produced in the formative years of Christianity, reflecting the beliefs, practices, and cultural contexts of the time.

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered ...

But the vast majority of texts from Christianity’s earliest centuries were written on papyrus, the paper of the ancient world. Conservator Emma Nichols examines a Hebrew text at the Cambridge ...

They had unearthed several early Christian texts including gospels of Thomas, Philip and Mary that had been buried away for around 1,600 years. These gospels were some of the many alternative ...

Key terms including “crowing” and “branch” allowed them to compare it to other early Christian texts and identify it as an ...