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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: Gnosticism
Description: In the first and second centuries, a Christian sect found a wide following throughout the Roman world. They weren’t your normal run-of-the-mill Christians. They had beliefs that were nothing like those of any Christian sect today, and they drew the ire of many Christian leaders at the time. What we knew about them was limited to the writings of their critics until a stunning find in the mid-20th century shed new light on them.Learn more about Gnosticism and the Gnostics, their beliefs, and the reaction to them on this episode of E...