Some of the most exciting discoveries in biblical scholarship aren’t accessible to popular audiences. Other Gospels is changing that. We commission and purchase the rights to scholarly translations of these ancient texts so that anyone can freely read, copy, and use them for any purpose.
At the bottom of each work, you will find a copyright notice. Some authors require permission to use their works, which you'll need to get from them directly. However, for the other translations, we hereby dedicate all versings and alterations we've made to the public domain per U.S. law. This means you have a permissive license to use our renderings of these ancient scriptures. Note that this does not include any associated commentary or opinion pieces.
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For hundreds of years, scholars were worried that the Gnostic holy books had been lost to history — many of which were burnt at the hands of their orthodox critics. Everything changed, however, when this collection of ancient texts was found near Nag Hammadi. Preserved in the dry sands of Egypt and hidden from the persecution of the day, these essential Gnostic scriptures were rediscovered, ushering in a new era of Biblical scholarship and Christian thought.
Unfortunately, only a few of these works have been made available to the public, most being restricted by copyright law and academic paywalls. Until today! Other Gospels has commissioned Samuel Zinner and Mark Mattison to translate all of Nag Hammadi for the public domain. For the first time ever, the Nag Hammadi Codices are available to humanity with no strings attached. Samuel Zinner is doing the bulk of the translating, with Mark Mattison performing peer review. Both are experts in Biblical scholarship and have decades of experience translating ancient materials.
Before each translation is a short commentary summarizing or explaining the importance of the given document. These are written by Rachel Bousfield, the creator and software developer behind Other Gospels.
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