Sentences with phrase «apocryphal books»

In the Muratorian fragment the book is described as containing the acts of all the apostles, presumably in order to reject apocryphal books of acts by implication.

The name Didymus Judas Thomas may point towards Syria, where the Acts of Thomas originated, but the parallels with traditions and apocryphal books known to Clement and Origen suggest Alexandria instead.

(Jude has also been suspect since the earliest days because it appears to quote apocryphal books — the Assumption of Moses and Enoch — as Scripture (9, 54,15).)

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is a fantasy action game that will draw players into a rich storyline inspired by events in the Old Testament's apocryphal Book of Enoch.

Portions of some of the Apocryphal books were found among the dead sea scrolls: Starting in 1947, in the caves of the Qumran region about 14 miles East of Jerusalem, there were found in eleven separate caves, approximately 900 Manuscripts in some 25,000 pieces.

This episode is recorded in full in the apocryphal books of Maccabees, and it has left deep traces upon other literature of the period, some of which we shall notice presently.»

Then I was studying the King James Version, how it was translated from other existing versions, and how much scholars believe was deleted (much of it being the Apocryphal books found in the Catholic Bible).

A prayer in the apocryphal book of Sirach begins, «O Lord.

And believe it or not, I've never read though the apocryphal books, so I'm doing that this summer.

• In the Acts of Thomas, an apocryphal book about the travels of St. Thomas in India, Thomas prays, «I have planted the true vine in the land.

From the earliest foundations of the church and of Judaism, the apocryphal books (Maccabees, Tobit, etc.) were never considererd as coming from God.

Others contain paraphrases and commentaries related to the Old Testament, such as fragments of the apocryphal books of Enoch and Jubilees and of commentaries on Genesis, Isaiah, Hosea, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and various psalms.

Apocryphal books were also sometimes read in church or otherwise regarded as authoritative.

However, both are amongst the most relevant and apocryphal books that a modern day (value) investor could wish to read and Michael Lewis has a gift for stories which relate the human condition.