To return to a question I have raised here before. Given this profusion of sources and speculation that was already circulating by 1910 or so, it really is amazing that later generations were so amazed and entranced by the new outpouring of Gnostic- and heresy-related material (and new gospels) from the 1970s onward. It was almost as if the Lost Gospels were lost and forgotten once again. What on earth was happening?There is nothing new under the sun. That's in the Bible.Perhaps amnesia really is an integral part of the popularization of scholarship.
For lots more on those increasingly not-so-lost gospels, see here and links.
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