This is the first in a two-volume critical investigation of one of the earliest and most important of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Protevangelium of James (also known as the Infancy Gospel of James). Zervos challenges the prevailing view that the ProtJas is a 2nd century unitary document, and finds instead that it is a product of an ongoing redactional process by which a 1st century CE 'heretical' text was progressively conformed to the 'orthodox' Christian doctrine of the time.
Zervos tells the story of how an early apocryphal gospel provided the developing church...
This is the first in a two-volume critical investigation of one of the earliest and most important of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Protevang...
