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Reconstructed gospels are those preserved from secondary sources and commentaries. Secret Gospel of Mark – legitimacy is a subject of debate as the single source mentioning it is considered by many to be a modern forgery, and was lost before it could be independently authenticated. Gospel of Matthias – a lost text from the New Testament ...
The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...
The Book of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Bartholomew the Apostle is a pseudonymous work of the New Testament apocrypha.It is not to be confused with the book called Questions of Bartholomew and either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew (or neither may be), a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha.
The Jewish–Christian Gospels were gospels of a Jewish Christian character quoted by Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Eusebius, Epiphanius, Jerome and probably Didymus the Blind. [15] Most modern scholars have concluded that there existed one gospel in Aramaic/Hebrew and at least two in Greek, although a minority argue that there were only two ...
The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels [a]) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman. [1]
The Gospel of Matthias is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, ascribed to Matthias, the apostle chosen by lots to replace Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:15–26). The content has been surmised from various descriptions of it in ancient works by church fathers .
The Secret Book of John: The Gnostic Gospel, Annotated and Explained. London: Darton Longman & Todd. ISBN 1-59473-082-2; Gwynn, John (1897). The Apocalypse of St John, a Syriac version hitherto unknown. Dublin; London: Hodges Figgis & Co; Longman Green & Co. King, Karen (2006). The Secret Revelation of John. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
The Egerton Gospel (British Library Egerton Papyrus 2) refers to a collection of three papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century CE. Together they comprise one of the oldest surviving witnesses to any ...