The Gnostic Gospel & Apocryphal Christ
In this course, the Gnostic Gospels (and other related apocryphal literature) will be explored and analyzed in-depth, investigating and probing their meaning and history, as well as contemporary relevance.
This course aims at providing students with the necessary knowledge and skills to both discover for themselves what scholarship thinks of Gnostic literature, and to help them come to their own conclusions about where the evidence currently points.
Discover what apocryphal books were banned and buried in the sands of Egypt for over a thousand years, and how they have revealed the secrets of what various early Christianities existed in the second century.
Gain a solid understanding of the current scholarly knowledge about these works and the Gnostic groups who preserved them.
Undertake a close reading of these works, alongside fellow classmates, to learn how to both appreciate and critique the unique perspectives these ancient Christians brought to the developing Orthodox tradition.
Sunday Recording
Nicole Denzey Lewis - Chapters 1-4
David Brakke Lecture 1
David Brakke Lecture 2
David Brakke Lecture 17 (Invention of Heresy)
Layton translation of "Hymn of the Pearl"
Aug 23, 2020 Recording
The Gnostics by David Brakke
Lewis - Chapter 6
Letter to Flora Translation (Ehrman)
Layton Translation of Ptolemy's Myth and Letter to Flora
Aug 30, 2020 Recording
Lewis - Chapter 8 (Gospel of Truth)
David Brakke Lecture 11
Layton Translation of Valentinus Fragments and Gospel of Truth
Sept 6 Recording
Lewis - Chapter 7
Lewis - Chapter 8 (Gospel of Philip)
David Brakke Lecture 12
David Brakke Lecture 13
David Brakke Lecture 14
Layton Translation of Treatise, Philip, and Prayer
Sept 13 Recording
Apocryphon of James Translation (Scholars Version)
David Brakke Lecture 16 (start at 22:06)
Theomachy and Christomachy (Korpman)
David Brakke Lecture 15
Finding Jesus: The Gospel of Mary (CNN Documentary)
Sept 20, 2020 Recording
David Brakke Lecture 3 (Apocryphon of John)
David Brakke Lecture 4 (Apocryphon of John 2)
Placeholder
Sept 27, 2020 Recording
David Brakke Lecture 5
Finding Jesus: Gospel of Judas (CNN Documentary)
Reading Judas - Karen King and Elaine Pagels
David Brakke - Article + Upcoming Draft of Yale Translation
Oct 4, 2020
Placeholder
David Brakke Lecture 9
David Brakke Lecture 10
Dale Martin Yale Lecture
Oct 25, 2020 Recording
David Brakke Lecture 16 (stop at 22:06)
Oct 18 2020 Recording
Matthew Korpman
Classes will be done via live Zoom meetings. These meetings will be recorded and uploaded to the website here for students so that they can either watch it because they missed the class, or review it because they wanted to remember something said during it.
No. The course will be conducted as a research seminar and your primary objective will be to read, discuss, and understand the material.
The course will be approximately three months long, or 10 or so weeks. This is about the length of an academic Quarter.
No. The class will be conducted as a research seminar which means we will try to make it fun, dynamic, and engaging.
Class time will be voted on by those who are interested in the course, so that a time that is mutually agreeable to everyone can be the date at which we meet each week.
The overall cost of the course is $99, discounted from the regular price of $150. The course is three months long and each individual payment of $33.33 provides 30 days of access. This allows the $99 total price to be flexibly broken into three installments that can be paid over time.
$99.99
Special COVID-19 Discount