The Lost Books Of The Bible: Being All The Gospels, Epistles, And Other Pieces Now Extant Attributed In The First Four Centuries To Jesus Christ His Apostles And Their Companions
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Long before the canon of scripture was sealed, a vast world of sacred writing circulated among the earliest Christian communities — and The Lost Books of the Bible brings that hidden tradition back into the light. This remarkable anthology gathers the Gospels, Epistles, and other apocryphal pieces attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and their companions, including texts excluded from the authorised New Testament and the recently discovered Syriac manuscript of Pilate's letters to Tiberius. Translated directly from the original tongues and illustrated from ancient paintings and mosaics, it presents primary source material of extraordinary historical and theological weight. These recovered texts illuminate the contested, richly diverse landscape of early Christianity, revealing doctrines, narratives, and spiritual voices that institutional history chose to silence. As Dr. Talmage observed, the Apocryphal Books contain a great deal of the early life of Christ not to be found in the four Evangelists — a provocation that charges every page with quiet urgency. Scholars, seekers, and the simply curious will find within these pages a Christianity far stranger, richer, and more contested than tradition has allowed us to believe.
Genre: Religion
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the canon of scripture was sealed, a vast world of sacred writing circulated among the earliest Christian communities — and The Lost Books of the Bible brings that hidden tradition back into the light. This remarkable anthology gathers the Gospels, Epistles, and other apocryphal pieces attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and their companions, including texts excluded from the authorised New Testament and the recently discovered Syriac manuscript of Pilate's letters to Tiberius. Translated directly from the original tongues and illustrated from ancient paintings and mosaics, it presents primary source material of extraordinary historical and theological weight. These recovered texts illuminate the contested, richly diverse landscape of early Christianity, revealing doctrines, narratives, and spiritual voices that institutional history chose to silence. As Dr. Talmage observed, the Apocryphal Books contain a great deal of the early life of Christ not to be found in the four Evangelists — a provocation that charges every page with quiet urgency. Scholars, seekers, and the simply curious will find within these pages a Christianity far stranger, richer, and more contested than tradition has allowed us to believe.