The Forgotten Bible Apocrypha of the Old and New Testaments

Used book in very good condition

Lost during the vicissitudes of history or condemned by the nascent Church, the apocryphal texts "gathered in this forgotten Bible continued to circulate through underground channels, in discrete groups or outlying Churches such as the Ethiopian Church, without ceasing to influence the majority currents. For the first time, these hidden aspects of biblical literature are made accessible in a continuous reading, situated and interpreted by JR Porter, a renowned English theologian. Attributed to great figures such as Abraham, Enoch, Elijah, Paul, Peter or Philip, these words make us experience the creation of the angels, the Fall of Satan, as well as the daily life of the child Jesus. Adam and Eve each give their version of the Fall, while Christ delivers Gnostic aphorisms in the Gospel of Thomas. Witnesses of an antiquity where prophetic vocations and divergent interpretations flourished, these voices are restored by JR Porter in a polyphony that is in turn apocalyptic and Essene, Judeo-Christian and Gnostic.