The Nag Hammadi Library Books
These are 52 ancient texts found in 12 leather-bound books (including a few pages of a 13th book) that were found in December 1945. The most famous and most controversial (oh yes!) is The Gospel of Truth, The Gospel of Thomas ("secret words of Jesus"), and The Apocryphon of James.
As you watch the National Geographic video "The Gospel of Judas", it is explained that the early Orthodox Christian Church was in a rush to find "a meaning " to become martyrs for the Christian faith, in which there was presently no Bible.
Most early Christians had invdividual texts. For example, one church may have preached of the Gospel of Matthew, while another church preached of the Gospel of Judas, but neither preached of both.
So, the French Bishop Ireneus decided to construct the Bible of the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
... And later was added Revelation and "the other stuff" (Acts-Jude), as I call it (because Christ never had a word in any of them, except for the Book of Revelation, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
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