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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 churchgoers.
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 churchgoers.
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 revised and enlarged edition contains a new
introduction on texts and traditions in late antiquity, a reworked
translation of The Gospel of Peter, selections from Ovid's
Metamorphoses, plus such documents as Papyrus Egerton 2,
Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840, and The Apocryphon of James. In addition,
the table of contents has been expanded to allow easier access to
the documents contained herein.
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