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The Gospel They Buried
The Secret Sayings of Jesus the Church Tried to Erase
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36738750
EAN: 9798190474992
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Fr, 09.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 23.–
Beschreibung
In December 1945, an Egyptian farmer digging for fertilizer struck a sealed clay jar with his mattock. Inside were thirteen leather-bound books, buried for roughly sixteen hundred years. One of them contained a gospel nobody in the modern world had ever read in full - 114 sayings attributed directly to Jesus, with no birth story, no miracles, no crucifixion, and no resurrection. Just sayings, opening with a line that reads less like scripture and more like a dare: these are secret words, and whoever understands them will never die. THE GOSPEL THEY BURIED tells the real story of that text - a discovery story so dramatic that even scholars can't agree on which parts of it are true. A blood feud. A mother burning ancient pages in her oven. Proof of the gospel's real age that sat unrecognized in the British Museum and at Harvard for nearly fifty years before anyone knew what they were looking at. A manuscript bought as a birthday present for Carl Jung, who reportedly didn't want his name on it. This book describes exactly what the text says, and separates that clearly from questions of religious truth, which are left entirely up to you. It also does something most popular accounts don't: it's honest about which parts of this story are solid history and which parts are legend that outran the evidence - including the discovery story's most famous, most repeated detail. Inside you'll find: - The real story of the 1945 Nag Hammadi discovery, and the genuine scholarly doubt about its most dramatic details- What the Gospel of Thomas actually says, including its most beautiful sayings and its most difficult one- Why some scholars think this text might be as old as, or older than, the Gospels in your own Bible- Why the early church rejected it - and why the label "Gnostic" may not even be the right one>If you've heard whispers about a "lost gospel" and never knew the real story, this is where it starts.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jonathan C. Hillman
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 54