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Nearly all information presented on early Christianity was made available by orthodox Christians until 1945 when an Arab peasant unexpectedly made an astonishing discovery. Hidden within a red earthenware jar were texts that came to be known as The Gnostic Gospels, the sacred books of one of the earliest Christian sects. In this book, author Elaine Pagels draws on those texts to illuminate the world of the first Christians and to examine the different ways in which both Gnostics and the orthodox constructed God, Christ and the Church.
