The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the Church's traditional stories about its origins. Although not in the Bible, these popular stories have had a powerful influence on the Church's traditions and theology, and a particularly marked effect on visual representations of Christian belief. This book provides a lucid introduction to the relationship between the apocryphal texts and the paintings, mosaics, and sculpture in which they are frequently paralleled, and which have been so significant in transmitting these non-Biblical stories to generations of...
The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the Church's traditional stories about its origins. Although not in the...
The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the church's traditional stories about its origins. These apocrypha included well-known tales such as those of the ox and the ass at the Nativity, the Assumption of the Virgin, and the martyrdoms of St Peter and St Paul. Although not in the Bible, these popular stories have had a powerful influence on the church's traditions and theology, and a particularly marked effect on visual representations of Christian belief. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between the apocryphal texts and the...
The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the church's traditional stories about its origins. These apocrypha inc...
This collection of freshly translated texts leads to a new appreciation of the richness and variety of the religious world within which Christianity emerged as a powerful new force. Bringing together for the first time under a single cover documents from Jewish, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Syrian, and little-known early Christian sources, the material is arranged to bring out as clearly as possible the ways in which early Christian worship of Jesus Christ as Savior and God both echoed contemporary worship of other savior gods and at the same time stood in sharp contrast to such worship. This...
This collection of freshly translated texts leads to a new appreciation of the richness and variety of the religious world within which Christianity e...
Documents for the Study of the Gospels has been a highly regarded sourcebook for the study of the historical environment and the religious, philosophical, and literary texts comparable to aspects of the Gospels. In this third edition, David R. Cartlidge has added new discoveries (including the Gospel of Mary Magdala and the Gospel of Judas).
Documents for the Study of the Gospels has been a highly regarded sourcebook for the study of the historical environment and the religious, philosophi...
