The Apocryphal Gospels, Paul Foster
The Apocryphal Gospels, Paul Foster
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The Apocryphal Gospels
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Paul Foster

Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels—exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been interpreted both by the Church and beyond.

Looking at texts from the Gospels from Nag Hammadi to the Dialogues with the Risen Saviour, Paul Foster shows how the apocryphal gospels reflect the diversity that existed within early Christianity, and examines the extent to which they can be used to reconstruct an accurate portrait of the historical Jesus. Including discussions of controversies and case-studies such as the alleged hoax surrounding the discovery of Secret Mark, Foster concludes that the non-canonical texts, considered in the correct context, offer us an important window on the vibrant and multi-faceted face of early Christianity.

About Paul Foster

Paul Foster is senior lecturer in New Testament language, literature, and theology at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include a study of the Matthean community, Community, Law and Mission in Matthew's Gospel, a range of publications on the non-canonical Gospels, including The Apocryphal Gospels: A Very Short Introduction, and The Non Canonical Gospels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bojan on May 07, 2011

Over the last ten years or so there has been a flurry of interest into the apocryphal gospels and all forms of early non-orthodox Christian thought and practice. Much of this is due to the fact that many of these early non-orthodox sources were for the first time in almost two thousand years availab......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 20, 2023

Read this for an essay; quite good and easily digestable, although a little slim (well, it's not meant to be a scholarly tome) on the detail and the aspect of how this conflicts with orthodox views of Jesus.......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on September 25, 2018

I listened to the audio version. It was easy to zone out to the narrator’s voice and I could tell when a tough word was stumbled upon. The text itself read less like an introduction and more like a scholarly essay, with parts that I had trouble keeping up with. The organization of the contents seeme......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on October 09, 2012

epic tales of jesus the child asshole and esoteric mumblings......more