The Apocryphal New Testament - M. R. James - 1924 - Not OCR

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THE
APOCRYPHAL
NEW TESTAMENT
Oxford UniversityPress,AmenHouse, LondonE.G.4
GLASGOW NEWYORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA
CAPETOWN SALISBURY NAIROBI IBADAN ACCRA
KUALALUMPUR HONGKONG
THE
APOCRYPHAL
NEW TESTAMENT
BEING THJS
APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS, ACTS
AND APOCALYPSES
EPISTLES,
WITH OTHER NARRATIVES AND FRAGMENTS
NEWLY TRANSLATED BY
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES
Lnr.D., F.B.A., P.S.A.
PROVOSTOF ETON SOMETIMEPKOVOSTOP KING'SCOLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
J
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PEESS
FIRSTEDITION1924
REPRINTED1926, 1945, I95O
1953(CORRECTED), 1955, 1960, 1963
PKINTJ2D IN GREAT BRITAIN
CONTENTS
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PREFACE
xi
Object ofthis collection xi
Existenceand purpose ofthe apocryphal writings. Their
The imnaedaenqiunagcy.andTheuisreiomfportthaencweoradnsd Iantpeorcersytph.a and. xii
Hone'aspocArpyopchraylphal Ne.w Te.stamen.t, mi.sleadi.ng' and un-. xiii
original, based on a false view ofthe history of the
Canon. The true state ofthe case . xiv
ThetestofCanonicity, viz. useofbooksinpublicworship
ofCatholiccongregations. Books whichwereso used
but failed to obtain permanent recognition . . xvii
This collection not absolutely complete. Classes of
writings not included in it : Gnostic Apocrypha,
Books of Church Order, Liturgies, the Clementine
literature, The Pseudo-Dionysian writings, books
bearing names of Old Testament worthies, other
late and unimportant compositions . . xxii
NOTE. Titles areitalicized in the case oftexts ofwhich
an abstract, not a full translation, is given.
FRAGMENTS OF EARLY GOSPE.LS,.ETC.. ..
The Gospel accordingto the Hebrews< . . . . 1
The Gospel ofthe Ebionites .108
The Gospel accordingtothe Egyptians . .
The Gospel ofPhilip ....1212
The Gospel or TraditionsofMatthias . .... .
The Gospel ofPeter (ancienttestimonies) 15
The Gospel ofThomas (ancient testimonies) .1614
The Preaching ofPeter . . . . .
LOST HERETICAL BOOKS .....
;
The Birth ofMary ... 19
.....
The Lesser Questions ofMary 20
The Ascents ofJames and other lostbooks 20
The Memoria ofthe Apostles 21
Lists ofApocryphal Books :
The Gelasian Decree . ,<**** * >/r * 21
. i
CONTENTS
vi
PACK
The List ofthe Sixty Books .... 23
The Stichometry ofNicephorus 23
The Synopsis ofPseudo-Athanasius 24
FRAGMENTS OF GOSPELS, ETC., preserved in manu-
scripts discoveredinrecent years,:
A. GKEEK FRAGMENTS : ...
The Fayoum Gospel-fragment 25
The Oxyrhynchus Sayings ofJe.sus .... 25
Fragment ofa Gospel 28
Fragmentofanother Gospel 29
B. COPTIC FRAGMENTS : .30
The Strasburgpapyrus . . .
Fragmentpreservedwiththe Pistis Sophia . . 31
Fragmentpreservedwiththe Acts ofPaul . . 31
AGRAPHA ....... 33
A. Agraphafound as additionsto thet.exto.fthe.Gos.pels 33
The 34
Freer-logion
B. Agraphapreservedin quotations 34
INFANCY GOSPELS ... 38
TheBook ofJames, or Protevangelium .4398
ThGereGoeskpteelxtofBThomas. GreektextA . . . 55
Latin text 58
Appendixes to the Gospel of Thomas. I. From the
Pistis Sophia 66
II. Miracles of the Dyer, The Children in the Oven,
The Boy intheTower 66
TheLiber de Infantia, or GospelofPseudo-Matthew . 70
The GospeloftheBirth ofMary .....8709
TheArabic Gospelofthe Infancy . . . .
TheArmenian Gospelofthe Infancy 83
The History ofJoseph the Carpenter, or Death ofJoseph . 84
Coptic Lives, &c., oftheVirgin .....8877
Discourse byEvodius ? . .. .. .. .
DiscourseofCyrilofJerusalem .... 87
DiscourseofDemetrius ofAntioch 88
ADmiosdceorurnseInoffaCnycryilGoosfpAell,exaannddroitaher modern forgeries . 8898
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PASSION GOSPELS 90
...
The Gospel of Peter, Fragment I 90
The Gospel ofNicodemus, or Acts ofPilate 94
Part I 96