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The Gnostic Gospels of Philip, Mary Magdalene, and Thomas: Inside the Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail
The Gnostic Gospels of Philip Mary Magdalene and Thomas Inside the Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood Holy Grail Author:Joseph B. Lumpkin The Gospel of Philip is assumed to be one of the sources of Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, about Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and their children. The Gospel is one of Gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945 and belongs to the same collection of Gnostic documents as the more famous Gospel of Thomas. It has been suggested that the Go... more »spel of Philip was written in the second century A.D. If so, it may be one of the earliest documents containing themes that would later be used in apocryphal literature. A single manuscript of the Gospel of Philip, written in Coptic, was found in the Nag Hammadi library. The collection was a library of thirteen papyrus texts discovered near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. While traveling and researching in Cairo in 1896, German scholar, Dr. Carl Reinhardt, acquired a papyrus containing Coptic texts entitled the Revelation of John, the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of Mary. Before setting about to translate his exciting find two world wars ensued, delaying publication until 1955. By then the Nag Hammadi collection had also been discovered. Although the text of the Gospel of Mary is incomplete, the text presented below serves to shake the very concept of our assumptions of early Christianity as well as Christs possible relationship to Mary of Magdala, whom we call Mary Magdalene.« less