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The Council of Nicaea: The Meeting That Decided What Jesus Said
On how political power shaped Christian doctrine at Nicaea, and why the "canonical" Jesus was a decision, not a discovery
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Nag Hammadi: The Library They Buried in the Desert
On how early Christian gnostics preserved forbidden knowledge in clay jars, and what their rediscovery reveals about power's suppression of dissent
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years of Delay and What It Means
On how the monopolization of sacred texts by scholarly authority obscures their radical implications, and what delayed access reveals about institutional power
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The Gospel of Thomas: The Jesus Who Didn't Need the Church
On a Jesus teaching radical self-knowledge over institutional salvation, and why the early church had to suppress him
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The Gnostic Roads: All the Christianities That Didn't Win
On how early Christian diversity was systematized into uniformity, and what the losing traditions reveal about power's relationship to truth
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The Q Source: The Lost Gospel That Shaped the Ones We Have
On the earliest layer of Jesus teaching that survives, and how reconstructing it reveals what the evangelists chose to emphasize and conceal