5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American New Testament scholar at Rice University who specializes in early Christianity, Gnosticism, and mysticism — whose work on the Gospel of Judas (challenging the National Geographic interpretation) and mystical Judaism made her a public figure in biblical studies.
American scholar of religion at Princeton who wrote The Gnostic Gospels — the most widely read popular account of the Nag Hammadi texts — and Beyond Belief, examining the Gospel of Thomas — making Gnostic Christianity available to general audiences.
Dutch scholar of religion and Gnosticism at Utrecht who was involved in the discovery and initial publication of the Nag Hammadi texts — and who had a long personal correspondence with Jung about Gnosticism and its psychological significance.
A non-canonical collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus — discovered in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945 — which has no narrative framework, only sayings, and which some scholars argue preserves early independent Jesus tradition, while others read it as Gnostic theology.
American physician, minister, and Jungian scholar who has written extensively on Jung and Gnosticism — and who produced the documentary 'The Gnostic Jung' — connecting Jung's private mysticism (revealed in the Red Book) to the Gnostic tradition.