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Do the Nag Hammadi Codices Undermine the Reliability of the New Testament Gospels?

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Do the Nag Hammadi Codices Undermine the Reliability of the New Testament Gospels?

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Unlike in the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dan Brown’s fictional Leigh Teabing has a chance at being correct when he talks about the NHL. The codices from Nag Hammadi in Egypt do contain a number of “gospels,” and these do contain a picture of Jesus which, for the most part, diverges from what we find in the New Testament. (In some ways, the Gospel of Thomas, the most important of the NHL gospels for the study of Jesus, actually supports the New Testament gospels, though its picture of Jesus is quite different from their’s in some ways.