New Testament Apocrypha

[Cruikshank_s]

God my newsletter for the Winter of 08 from the CSP. In it was a really cool gospel narrative entitled “The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour” It’s apocryphal yes? I knew there was apocrypha for the old testament, but never for the new… I’d like to (if the consensus is that it’s safe and sound) read the rest of such narratives, does anyone know where to find other apocryphal books preferably not online?

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

God my newsletter for the Winter of 08 from the CSP. In it was a really cool gospel narrative entitled “The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour” It’s apocryphal yes? I knew there was apocrypha for the old testament, but never for the new… I’d like to (if the consensus is that it’s safe and sound) read the rest of such narratives, does anyone know where to find other apocryphal books preferably not online?

There are English translations of the NTA, by M. R. James (published 1924), and in the two-volume work by William Schneemelcher & Edgar Hennecke, now in its third English edition. The Arabic Infancy Gospel appears in both collections.​

The Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha of both Testaments are very numerous, & many of them have been very influential in art & thought - though many are anything but interesting Go ahead

 

[thistle]

God my newsletter for the Winter of 08 from the CSP. In it was a really cool gospel narrative entitled “The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour” It’s apocryphal yes? I knew there was apocrypha for the old testament, but never for the new… I’d like to (if the consensus is that it’s safe and sound) read the rest of such narratives, does anyone know where to find other apocryphal books preferably not online?

Are you confusing apocrypha and deuterocanonical?

The deuterocanonicals are the 7 books in the Old Testament that Catholic bibles contain but which the Protestants took out.
The New Testament has the same books for Catholics and Protestants.

 

[Sir_Anthony]

God my newsletter for the Winter of 08 from the CSP. In it was a really cool gospel narrative entitled “The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour” It’s apocryphal yes? I knew there was apocrypha for the old testament, but never for the new… I’d like to (if the consensus is that it’s safe and sound) read the rest of such narratives, does anyone know where to find other apocryphal books preferably not online?

Infancy Gospels does not constitute an aprocrypha, rather Pseudepigrapha, that is non-canonical writings that arose from well obvious reasons, the gap in the Gospels of Jesus from 8 to 30. They were written in the late second and third century as sort of pop literature. Interestingly enough, some of the stories of the infancy gospels finds itself in the Quran, such as Jesus making clay birds and bringing them to life.

Really, if there is an apocrypha of the New Testament, it probably would be some of the Epistles of Barnabas and Clement, which probably weren’t written by the said persons, but are of great antiquity from the Apostolic Age, the Apocalypse of Peter, which almost made it into the Bible and was considered inspired and canonical by several patristic fathers. Now when the Church gather to determine what is canonical they debated about authenicity and universality of the gospels and letters that were circulating (biblical scholarship and criticism was not an invention of the 18th century, the Church Fathers used it often). Universality is why we have Revelation of John rather than the Apocalypse of Peter in the Bible, the Church Fathers and those present at the Councils were wise enough to realize that the Bible needed to be able communicate through the Ages.

Now Martin Luther believed that a couple of NT books like Jude were not canonical but apocrypha, and wanted to keep them separate like he did with the 7 OT books, but like so many of positions of Luther’s position, he switched.

 

[Cruikshank_s]

Are you confusing apocrypha and deuterocanonical?

The deuterocanonicals are the 7 books in the Old Testament that Catholic bibles contain but which the Protestants took out.
The New Testament has the same books for Catholics and Protestants.

No, I’m referring to these books:

Arabic Infancy Gospel
History of Joseph the Carpenter
Life of John the Baptist
Gospel of the Hebrews
Gospel of the Nazarenes
Gospel of the Ebionites
Gospel of Peter
Gospel of Nicodemus (also called the “Acts of Pilate”)
Gospel of Bartholomew
Questions of Bartholomew
Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

[Cruikshank_s]

What’s the difference between Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha?

 

[thistle]

ntcanon.org/table.shtml

 

[Cruikshank_s]

Thanks Thistle! Cool link:thumbsup: