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B. Harris Cowper presents the Apocryphal Gospels and Other Documents relating to the History of Christ as a set of documents that are useful and interesting, but cautions that they “are fictions and not histories; not traditions even, so much as legends.” He covers the Gospel of James, the Infancy of Mary and of Jesus, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, the history of Joseph, the Gospel of...

bear it. And gradually that light withdrew until the babe was seen, and it came and took the breast from its mother Mary. And the midwife cried out and said, To day is a great day to me, for I have seen this novel sight. And the midwife went out of the cave, and Salome met her; and she said to her, Salome, Salome, I have a novel sight to tell thee: A virgin hath brought forth, which is not in accordance with the course of nature.1 And Salome said, As the Lord my God liveth, except I put out my hand
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