In December 1945, Muhammad Ali—not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt—uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. Muhammad and his brother broke it open and found books, ...

Have you noticed any or all of the following? A mail-order catalogue of household bric-a-brac encouraging you to buy and read “The Missing Books of the Bible”(2 vols. for $9.98)? A well-known ...

The word “Apocrypha” commonly denotes the fourteen or fifteen books which are present in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Old Testament but which are not included in the canon of the Hebrew Old ...