ISBN10: 0198261217, ISBN13: 9780198261216, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. 1966 edition. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The object of the present volume is to give that compre- hensive view. It contains fresh versions of all the really important texts, and full summaries, with extracts, of those which do not need to be translated word for word. Further, it attempts to put the reader in possession of the results of the very fruitful researches of the last generation. In those thirty years a great mass of material has been added to the available stock, and, what is not less important, there has been a sifting of what is early from what is late, and an order and chronology of the writings, which is not likely to be seriously disturbed, has been settled. From the historical and the literary point of view, then, it is worth while to present the apocryphal literature of the New Testament afresh; but it is also worth while from the religious point of view. People may still be heard to say, 'After all, these Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, as you call them, are just as interesting as the old ones. It w
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