BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ics.py - http://git.io/lLljaA BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the end of the block for this wonderful lecture - \n\nGnostic Gospels or New Testament Gospels—Which Came First? \nDr. Geoffrey S. Smith\, The University of Texas at Austin\n \nWednesday\, November 11 – 4:00pm – Bemis Great Hall\n \nFour Gospels made it into the New Testament\, yet scores more survive outside of the Bible—many of which came to light in the Nag Hammadi discovery of 1945. Church tradition holds that the canonical Gospels were composed first\, and the “gnostic” Gospels appeared later\, as improvisations upon\, if not adulterations of\, the true\, authoritative Gospels. And while an earlier generation of scholars tended to view many of the non-canonical Gospels as equally ancient as the canonical ones\, more recently scholars seem to agree that the non-canonical Gospels came later\, and were intended to “supplement” rather than “supplant” the canonical writings. This talk revisits the evidence for the dating of the ancient Christian Gospels\, and considers how paying close attention to the material evidence—the manuscripts themselves—might offer new answers to the perennial question of “Which Came First?”.\n\nThis keynote address associated the meeting of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network at Colorado College\, is supported\, in part\, by the Department of Religion’s Sheffer Fund. The talk will be accessible to a non-specialist audience\, so please share details of the event with campus and community members.\n\nFor Zoom access\, please email Prof. Pam Reaves - preaves@coloradocollege.edu\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/5623 DTEND:20221117T000000Z LOCATION:Bemis Great Hall DTSTART:20221116T230000Z SUMMARY:Wed\, 11/16 4:00pm: Gnostic or New Testament Gospels - Which Came First? UID:493806cf-81e9-46f5-bf69-21b8da1284f7 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR