Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way

"A quite absorbing book."―Clergy Journal

"A sober, and sobering, account of how some scholars have enthusiastically embraced 'new' or 'hidden' gospels which just happen to support certain currently fashionable ideologies―and of just how unwarranted such claims actually are."―N.T. Wright DD, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey

"Jenkins has brilliantly identified the mythic dimension of the recent fascination with hidden gospels and alternative Christianities."―Luke Timothy Johnson, author of The Real Jesus

"Jenkins makes clear that the inflated claims of the boosters of the Gospel of Thomas are neither well founded nor all that new. This book places the recent 'selling of Nag Hammadi' within the larger context of American academic politics, social trends, and New Age religions, and does all this in a manner that remains accessible to the general reader."―John P. Meier, author of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus

"...nontechnical, lucid, and well argued."―Choice