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In this book Hans-Josef Klauck provides a comprehensive introduction to the apocryphal gospels—the biblical and related writings which do not form part of the accepted canon of Scripture. Klauck classifies the material in various helpful ways: Agrapha (isolated sayings if Jesus), Fragments, Jewish Christian Gospels, Two Gospels of the Egyptians, Infancy Gospels, Gospels about Jesus’ Death and...

ted by an orthodox reworking of the text; all that was left was the narrative itself (which the gnostics viewed as only the surface). Dates from the second to the fifth century have been suggested for the composition of IGTh; however, the parallel to Irenaeus certainly justifies dating the basic material of the text to the late second century.