What Nag Hammadi Did to the Record
~ Monday, September 28, 2020 ~
Before December 1945, the argument that the early church had systematically suppressed competing apostolic traditions was a theological inference drawn from the shape of the canonical record — from what the canon excluded rather than from any surviving evidence of the exclusion. After a sealed earthenware jar was opened in the Egyptian desert near the town of Nag Hammadi, the inference became a documented finding.