A study of early Christian belief: The Nag Hamadi Scriptures

Hey all!
Come join us on this journey through early Christian belief! We'll read the texts and discuss them, teasing out their meaning and comparing them to works from the New and Old Testaments. This is a HUGE book, so chances are we will take side roads into texts from the New and Old Testaments at some point in time. I have run two other meetups on both of those books and would like to add this, as a sort of third Testament, subsequent to the New Testament. There seem to be several free copies online. Try this: The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume | Libgen If you get a physical copy, try to get the revised and updated version.

Tentative Schedule
M1: The prayer of the apostle Paul & The Secret Book of James
M2: The Gospel of Truth
M3: The Treatise on Resurrection
M4: The Tripartite Tractate part 1
M5: The Tripartite Tractate parts 2 and 3
M6: The Secret Book of John
M7: The Gospel of Thomas
M8: The Gospel of Philip
M9: The Nature of the Rulers
M10: On the Origin of the World

About the text: The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is the most complete English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, as well as other Gnostic gospels and sacred texts. This volume also includes notes to help the reader understand the context and contemporary significance of these texts which have shed new light on early Christianity and ancient thought.

The compilation of ancient manuscripts that constitute The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is a discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early Christian church, ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman religions.