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The Epistle of the Apostles (Latin: Epistula Apostolorum) is a work of New Testament apocrypha.Despite its name, it is more a gospel or an apocalypse than an epistle.The work takes the form of an open letter purportedly from the remaining eleven apostles describing key events of the life of Jesus, followed by a dialogue between the resurrected Jesus and the apostles where Jesus reveals ...
The Lost Gospel was described as historical nonsense by Markus Bockmuehl. [12] Author Ross Shepard Kraemer complained that her book When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered was distorted by Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson (revised preface to the 2015 paperback edition). [13]
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 ...
While some Christians thought Jesus should have the beautiful appearance of a young classical hero, [24] and the Gnostics tended to think he could change his appearance at will, for which they cited the Meeting at Emmaus as evidence, [25] others including the Church Fathers Justin (d. 165) and Tertullian (d. 220) believed, following Isaiah 53:2 ...
A number of gospels are concerned specifically with the "Passion" (from the Latin verb patior, passus sum; "to suffer, bear, endure", from which also "patience, patient", etc.) [22]) of Jesus: Gospel of Peter; Gospel of Nicodemus (also called the "Acts of Pilate") Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem, On the Life and the Passion of Christ; Gospel of ...
Gospel of Jesus' Wife – modern forgery based on the Gospel of Thomas. [13] [14] Papyrus Berolinensis 1171, Book of Enoch 0-6th century Greek fragment, possibly from an apocryphal gospel or amulet based on John. Papyrus Cairensis 10735 – 6th or 7th century Greek fragment, possibly from a lost gospel, may be a homily or commentary.
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A lengthy version, the first of the three versions in the Nag Hammadi library. The text is a revelation in the form of questions and answers given by Jesus to the apostle John. 07: 2: The Gospel of Thomas: 32–51: Gos. Thom. A collection of sayings of Jesus given secretly to the apostles. Some of the sayings are known from the canonical Gospels.