Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmmaker Lotfy Nathan has turned the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas into "The Carpenter’s Son," starring Nicolas Cage and ...

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, ...

The Book of Enoch is one of the most well-known examples of biblical Apocrypha, but it isn't accepted by almost any Jews or Christians. Here is what you should know. The Book of Enoch is one of the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated throughout the Roman Empire, another text about the life of Jesus was simultaneously spreading.

Early Christian communities produced far more literature than the texts that ultimately became the New Testament. Many writers expanded the stories of biblical figures, creating dramatic narratives ...