Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments and Agrapha: Introductions and Translations (Biblia.com)

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A fascinating insight into the rival religious communities of the early Christian church. These apocryphal texts open a window to understanding the rival religious communities which coexisted with the early church. Written after the ministry of Christ and the apostles, these collections of writings speak contain stories about Jesus that were never part of the canonical Gospels, but nevertheless...

To use these texts on what is from the start a precarious venture would render the venture completely incredible.1 Meier rightly places the material in the context of the second through fourth centuries and beyond. Thus the apocryphal gospels say less about Jesus in the context of the first century and more about the problems and issues people in later centuries had in understanding Jesus, and how they tried to solve those problems. These early Christians were not unique. People today have similar

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