An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 01.09.2003 - 200 Seiten
This book is a readable and analytical survey of those important but little-known Christian documents of the second and third centuries which are collectively referred to as the New Testament Apocrypha, and is intended to serve both as an introductory guide for interested clergy and laity, but also as a useful reference for those pursuing higher research. Questions of the manufacture of the codices, the transmission of the texts, the discovery of the lost and hidden books, and of the classification of the documents are considered, and the books are placed and critically examined in their geographical and social setting.
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
Chapter 1 THE EARLY HISTORY
20
Chapter 2 THE JUDAEAN CHURCH
43
Chapter 3 THE CHURCH IN SAMARIA
66
Chapter 4 THE CHURCH IN SYRIA
88
Chapter 5 THE CHURCH IN MESOPOTAMIA
113
Chapter 6 THE CHURCHES OF ASIA
132
Chapter 7 THE CHURCH IN EGYPT
155
EPILOGUE
177
Index of References
189
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Canon Dr. Fred Lapham received his Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Lampeter where he occasionally lectures in the New Testament Apocrypha. He lives in Shropshire, UK.

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