This volume examines ancient texts in the Jewish-Christian tradition, especially so-called "non-canonical" texts, by focusing on how they were used or functioned in early societies.
This work provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek and Slavonic.3 Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the history of the
This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism. Ben Sira’s understanding o
Pokorny (New Testament exegesis, Charles U., Prague) draws on his previous Gnostic and Coptic studies in Czech and German to comment on the Coptic text discovered in Upper Egypt just after World War I
This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as the crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocaly
This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Since this codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which ha
The first English translation directly from the original languages. Together with an extensive introduction that summarizes the document's contents, locates the writing within the early battle between
This book examines late antique and medieval devotional texts and materials, ranging from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern Europe, related to the Maccabean martyrs. This unique group of peopl
The early Christian church had a variety of Scriptures and other source material that informed their faith and shaped their thinking. But after a few centuries the church decided to keep the twenty-se
The first book to challenge The National Geographic version of the Gospel of Judas, The Thirteenth Apostle is sure to inspire to fresh debate around this most infamous of biblical figures. In 2006 The
When scholars from around the world gathered at the fourth Enoch Seminar to consider the differences between early Enoch literature and Jubilees, four tendencies emerged from the discussion. Some scho
Early Christian legends of divine power, miraculous events, fear and admiration can inform your own spiritual journey.The three principal infancy gospels—the Infancy Gospel of James, the Gospel of the
This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels - exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been interp
Rose (Medieval Latin, Utrecht University) uses the examples of the liturgical lives of the six "minor apostles": Bartholomew, Matthew, Philip, James the Lesser, Simon and Jude, to demonstrate the prev
An extraordinary vision of unity among the world's historic faiths and a classic of New Age spirituality.Here is a hugely influential interpretation of the "lost years" of Jesus Christ-from roughly th
Included here are fragments of seven gospel texts written in Greek, including P. Egerton 2, P. Oxy. 840, and P. Oxy. 1224. Many of these fragments have been known since the late nineteenth century, b
