Sentences with phrase «apocryphal gospels»

The second century saw the production of apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles and apocalypses, usually written in the names of various apostles and almost always reflecting special points of view.

Koester, in a 1980 Harvard Theological Review article, said of examples from five apocryphal gospels: «They are significant witnesses for the formation of the gospel literature....

The Gospel of Thomas is one of the apocryphal gospels found among the writings discovered in Nag - Hammadi in Egypt in 1945.

Remarkable stories are told of his childhood which remind one of some of the stories told of the child Jesus in the apocryphal gospels.

Another story from the apocryphal gospels of the childhood of Jesus.

This legend, which is very much in the manner of the later apocryphal gospels, is interwoven with the Marcan narrative.

It is only a later second - century apocryphal gospel that speaks of Mary miraculously giving birth with her sexual organs intact.

This apocryphal gospel is mentioned in patristic allusions, and has been more or less identified with a late and purely fanciful infancy narrative known for some time.

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Apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas

The apocryphal stories, in some instances, were understood to be «Gospel truth» on par with accounts found in Scripture.

In The Other Gospels, a collection of 16 apocryphal Gospels (Westminster, 1982), he also dates the Gospel of the Hebrews as circa 100 AD.