An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha

By F. Lapham

This book is a readable and analytical survey of those important but little-known Christian documents of the second and third centuries which are collectively referred to as the New Testament Apocrypha. It is intended to serve as an introductory guide for clergy, students of theology and Church history as well as for interested laity; but it is also a useful reference book for those pursuing higher research. Questions of the manufacture of the codices, the transmission of the texts, the discovery of the lost and hidden books, and of the classification of the documents, are considered, and the writings are placed, and critically examined, in their geographical and social setting.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826469787
• ISBN13: 9780826469786
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"