Apocryphal Gospels and Other Documents relating to the History of Christ, 4th ed.
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Overview
B. Harris Cowper presents the Apocryphal Gospels and Other Documents relating to the History of Christ as a set of documents that are useful and interesting, but cautions that they “are fictions and not histories; not traditions even, so much as legends.” He covers the Gospel of James, the Infancy of Mary and of Jesus, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, the history of Joseph, the Gospel of Thomas, the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, the Letter of Abgar to Jesus, and of Jesus to Agbar, the Letter of Lentulus, the Prayer of Jesus, the Story of Veronica, the Gospel of Nicodemus, the Letters of Herod, Pilate, and Caesar, the Report of Pilate to the Governor, the Trial and Condemnation of Pilate, Pilate’s Death, the Story of Joseph of Arimathea, and the Revenging of the Savior.
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Key Features
- Contains Apocryphal Gospels relating to the History of Christ
- Includes the Gospel of James, the Gospel of Thomas and the history of Joseph
- Essential primary source material
Top Highlights
“And suddenly the cloud withdrew from the cave, and there appeared a great light in the cave” (Page 20)
“And gradually that light withdrew until the babe was seen” (Page 21)
“God will give you such fruit as neither the prophets nor any saint ever had from the beginning, nor shall have” (Page 34)
“Longinus, the soldier, pierced his side with a spear, and Joseph our honourable father, begged his body” (Page 264)
“Besides, my food is invisible, and my drink can be seen by no mortal” (Page 33)
About B. Harris Cowper
B. Harris Cowper B. Harris Cowper was an early-church historian, archaeologist, and translator. He is credited with discovering Loughton Camp, an Iron Age hill fort in England which dates to BC 500, and he translated John Chrysostom’s On the Priesthood.