By Joseph Verheyden,Andrew Gregory,Christopher Tuckett,Tobias Nicklas

ISBN-10: 019964411X

ISBN-13: 9780199644117

The Oxford instruction manual of Early Christian Apocrypha addresses concerns and topics that come up within the examine of early Christian apocryphal literature. It discusses key texts together with the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Peter, letters attributed to Paul, Peter, and Jesus, and acts and apocalypses written approximately or attributed to varied apostles. half One comprises authoritative surveys of the most branches of
apocryphal literature (gospels, acts, epistles, apocalypses, and similar literature) and half considers key matters that they increase. those contain their contribution to our realizing of constructing theological understandings of Jesus, the apostles and different vital figures similar to Mary. It additionally addresses the price of those texts as
potential assets for wisdom of the ancient Jesus, and for debates approximately Jewish-Christian family, the perform of Christian worship, and constructing understandings of asceticism, gender and sexuality, and so on. the quantity additionally considers questions similar to which historic readers learn early Christian apocrypha, their position in Christian spirituality, and their position in modern pop culture and modern theological discourse.

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