Was Adam the Original Sinner?
Who actually is the culprit in the book of Genesis? Is it Adam? Is it Eve? Is it God himself? The main story is in Genesis. An Interview with Dr. Lance Jenott.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-08-31T06:53:36-04:00August 4th, 2021|Tags: Early Christian Texts, Genesis, Nag Hammadi, Old Testament|
Who actually is the culprit in the book of Genesis? Is it Adam? Is it Eve? Is it God himself? The main story is in Genesis. An Interview with Dr. Lance Jenott.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-06-06T16:55:22-04:00June 9th, 2021|Tags: Ancient Writings, Faith, Fundamentalism, Nag Hammadi, Religion|
What is especially liberating about this for me is that I know these [Nag Hammadi] texts don’t belong to any other competing faith tradition either. All Christians ‘own’ them on an equal footing.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-05-14T23:58:17-04:00June 2nd, 2021|Tags: Christian Heresies, Early Church, Gnosticism, Nag Hammadi, Religious Boundaries|
So they feel there’s a need to say, 'OK, we know this is a time of crisis, so we need to know who counts in our group and who doesn’t.' An Interview with Chance Bonar.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-05-05T02:37:54-04:00May 5th, 2021|Tags: Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi|
"One of my hobbies was to read things from antiquity that nobody else had ever read before. … Preparing a translation for publication is separate from translating as you put it together." An interview with Dr. Charles Hedrick.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-10-10T22:11:40-04:00March 21st, 2021|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers, Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi|
First in the Nag Hammadi Series Presenters Dr. Shirley Paulson and her co-instructor, Dr. Hal Taussig, explain the complex but extremely important relationship between the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas and the Bible, while helping you gain confidence in your own ability to interpret and make use of it.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-03-17T00:25:28-04:00March 17th, 2021|Tags: Apocryphal Texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible, Nag Hammadi, Tony Burke|
"I would suggest keeping a cool head and reserving judgment. Good scholarship takes time—thinking about … all the stuff that comes out on the internet very, very rapidly." An interview about the Shapira Scroll with Dr. Tony Burke.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-02-08T02:16:11-05:00February 10th, 2021|Tags: Gospel of Truth, Nag Hammadi|
"If the Gospel of Truth is making a correct diagnosis of the cycles of truth and error, its therapeutic remedy is worth pondering."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:19:03-05:00January 14th, 2021|Tags: Extracanonical Texts, Nag Hammadi, The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles, Violence|
"Discovering the source of their hope, the disciples/apostles learn that their treasure is actually the discovery of their purpose in life."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:15:48-05:00April 23rd, 2020|Tags: COVID-19, Extracanonical Texts, Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi|
I started to wonder: what else (besides an invisible virus) might be right in front of my face that I may not be noticing?
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:15:58-05:00April 9th, 2020|Tags: Comfort, COVID-19, Dialogue of the Savior, Nag Hammadi|
It could be that my mother’s confidence in this greater good – this ‘presence’ – is what prepared me to appreciate the calming messages in many of the ancient Christian texts.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-12-19T23:14:10-05:00May 10th, 2019|Tags: Celene Lillie, Extracanonical Texts, Nag Hammadi|
Talking to Celene Lillie about the Nag Hammadi collection helps us understand how these ancient writers made such important connections with their own readers, and then why that makes them so valuable for us today. An Interview with Dr. Celene Lillie.