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Ancient biographies were concerned with providing examples for readers to emulate while preserving and promoting the subject's reputation and memory; the gospels were never simply biographical, they were propaganda and kerygma (preaching), [5] meant to convince people that Jesus was a charismatic miracle-working holy man.
Discovered in 1736 in Jerusalem. 158 pages have survived (with a few at the end missing), currently preserved in the Vatican Library. The text has been published several times, first in 1865. [103] Sava's book, Cyrillic script from the 11th century, consisting of 166 pages. Discovered in 1866 near Pskov and currently housed in Moscow. The text ...
The Mystical Life of Jesus (1929) [m] – based heavily on The Aquarian Gospel where entire chapters were plagiarized; Essene Gospel of Peace (1937; 1974) The Urantia Book (1955) The Poem of the Man-God (1956) The Fifth Gospel (1956, Naber) [n] The Jesus Scroll (1972) The Gospel Given at Ares (1974) Gospel of Jesus According to Gabriele Wittek ...
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Heracleon, Fragments from his Commentary on the Gospel of John, mentioned in Origen (Commentary on the Gospel of John) Naassene Fragment mentioned in Hippolytus (Ref. 5.7.2–9). Ophite Diagrams mentioned in Celsus and Origen; Ptolemy's Commentary on the Gospel of John Prologue, mentioned in Irenaeus. [2] Ptolemy's Letter to Flora, mentioned in ...
The Rossano Gospels, designated by 042 or Σ (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 18 , held at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire.
Originally, there were believed to be eight manuscripts in the Chester Beatty collection containing portions of the Old Testament. However, what was believed to be two different manuscripts actually belonged to the same codex, resulting in a total of seven Old Testament manuscripts in the collection, all following the text of the Septuagint (an early Greek translation of the Old Testament).
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 ...