Lost Scriptures
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Lost Scriptures
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2003-10-02
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Readers will find Gospels supposedly authored by the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts originally ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul's female companion; there are Epistles allegedly written by Paul to the Roman philosopher Seneca. And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy leads to damnation. In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, a number of Apocalypses and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to each piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.
Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures by H. M. Harman
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...a genuine work of Daniel, they would have immediately inserted it with the other prophets, as belonging to them, if they regarded Daniel as a real prophet. But if Daniel was not regarded by the arrangers of the canon in the time of Nehemiah as a prophet in the sense in which they held the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel, they would, probably, have put it into the Hagiographa, though acknowledging the book to be genuine. But if Daniel had been vritten in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, it could not have been admitted into the Hagiographa, for that division was already closed. 2. ALLEGED GREEK WORDS IN DANIEL. In chap. iii, 5 ' occur the following names of musical instruments, which are alleged to be ofGreek origin: D1-TE, gay!/1ru: _, 'N Q, sablleka; t'jl: '=: t, pe.ra/1lcrz'1z; n"J'e'3'4D, szmzponeya/1. On the hypothesis of their Greek origin, the opponents of the genuineness of the book allege that at the time of the Babylonian captivity it is unlikely that musical instruments with Greek names were found in Babylon; and consequently that the bookanust be referred to a period subsequent to Alexander the Great, when Grecian learning was widely diflused in the East. _ The word o1'n'p is generally regarded as the Greek m'19a(ng' (or iut9a pa): 11/zara, or /tarp, which was in use at:1 very early period among the Greeks, and is found as the name of a musical instrument in Homer. It is very probably Greek, although Strabo represents some one as saying, "beating the A:: 'alz'cents-cf!/ram." ' N33? is supposed by some to be from the Greek dapfiemy, but with. outirieason. Filrst remarks that the word is " from the Aramzean, as a Syrian invented it" (Heb. Lex). Liddel
Rose Book of Bible Charts
Author: Rose Publishing (Torrance, Calif.)
language: en
Publisher: Rose Publishing Inc
Release Date: 2008
More than 230 pages of reproducible Bible charts in one book! Buying these charts separately would cost $130. You may reproduce up to 300 copies of any chart free of charge for your own classroom. Full color; contains most Rose material published since 2005. Hardcover with a spine covering a spiral binding. 233 pages.
