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Uniform Title Apocryphal New Testament.
Title The lost books of the Bible : being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their companions, not included by its compilers, in the Authorized New Testament, and the recently discovered Syriac mss. of Pilate's letters to Tiberius, etc / translated from the original tongues ; illustrated from ancient paintings and missals ; with a new foreword by Solomon J. Schepps.

Publication Info. New York : Bell Pub. Co., 1979.
1926.
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  229.9 B47 c.2  Check Shelf
Edition Bell 1979 edition.
Description 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Reprint of the 1926 ed. published by World Pub. Co., Cleveland.
William Hone's collection first published in 1820 under title "The Apocryphal New Testament", incorporating the translations of Jeremiah Jones for the Apocryphal books and of Archbishop Wake for the Apostolic Fathers. cf. M. R. James. The Apocryphal New Testament, p. xv.
Summary Suppressed by the early church fathers who compiled the Bible, these apocryphal books have been shrouded in silence for centuries. Here are the Apostles' Creed, the girlhood and betrothal of Mary, the childhood of Jesus-told in all their warmth, intimacy and humanity. Translated from the Original Tongues, with 32 illustrations from Ancient Paintings and Missals.
Subject Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Added Author Hone, William, 1780-1842.
Jones, Jeremiah, 1693-1724.
Wake, William, 1657-1737.
ISBN 0517277956
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