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The Apocryphal New Testament
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M.R. James
Being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles & Apocalypses with other narratives & fragments newly translated.
The New Testament apocrypha are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus & his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles & of their lives. These writings often have links with those books which are...more
The New Testament apocrypha are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus & his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles & of their lives. These writings often have links with those books which are...more
Hardcover
Published
1969
by Oxford University Press (London)
(first published 1924)
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My undergradute thesis being on the controversy regarding the orgins of gnosticism, I went on to do some further work on the subject in seminary while taking Elaine Pagel's course there, picking up this resource at Wiser's Bookstore in Manhattan.
Many of the extracanonical books of Christian scriptures deserve to be excluded, relatively speaking, as they are later texts with slight probabilities of being connected with any of the persons associated with the historical Jesus. Of course, by these c...more
Many of the extracanonical books of Christian scriptures deserve to be excluded, relatively speaking, as they are later texts with slight probabilities of being connected with any of the persons associated with the historical Jesus. Of course, by these c...more
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Montague Rhodes James, who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by...more
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