![]() ![]() Consider the following tidbits drawn from a handful of these apocryphal texts. On top of that, they can be terrific reading. ![]() For anyone interested in knowing what the earliest Christians thought about Christ, and God, and many other things, these books are indispensable. A good number of these non-canonical Gospels were once accepted by various early Christian groups as sacred Scripture many of them contain stories that are bizarre indeed. These early Christian writings comprise accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus that did not make it into the New Testament, that along with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John provided ancient Christians with their information about Jesus - some of it authentic but most of it, well, apocryphal. ![]() The Apocryphal Gospels - over forty texts in all - include both kinds of discoveries. At other times modern readers re-discover texts that have long been available, documents, for example, known all along to scholars, but not in wide circulation. Sometimes important religious discoveries are literally unearthed, giving us previously unavailable artifacts and texts - such as the discovery of the so-called Gnostic Gospels in 1945 or the discovery of the Gospel of Judas more recently. The Testament of Mary review: Pamela Rabe shines in chiselled, authoritative performance By Cameron Woodhead Updated Novem1.30pm first published Novem10.
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