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Title: Lost Books of the Bible by Rh Value Publishing ISBN: 0-517-27795-6 Publisher: Testament Pub. Date: 08 June, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting, But Dated Commentary
Comment: Originally published in 1926, the 1979 edition of this work purports to illustrate religious works "not included" by the compilers of the New Testament. It is an interesting read, with each book prefaced by scholarly opinions of how legitimate the material is. Some books directly echo the accepted New Testament, such as the book 'Infancy' and 'Mary'; others have the same title, such as 'Ephesians', with some of the same ideas as found in the New Testament. Others, such as the books dealing with Pontius Pilate, seem to contain historical inaccuracies (such as who exactly the Roman emperor was at the time), which lead to doubt about authenticity (although it is interesting to read). I would recommend this book, although it is dense, and the print is NOT reader-friendly, as a companion piece to other 'apocryphal' literature, but a newer edition might be more instructive.
Rating: 4
Summary: Recommended
Comment: This book contains 26 literary works from the early Christian Church. These "books" were extant in the early Church, but when the New Testament was officially organized into Canon Scripture (officially accepted books), these were among those left behind. This book was originally published in 1890, reprinted in 1926, and again in 1979.
As one might expect with any collection of stories, this one is a mixed bag of good and bad stories. Some of these works are long and tedious, while some are short and don't seem to contain anything new. However, all of them allow a fascinating glimpse into the thoughts of various factions within the early Church.
Personally, I enjoyed The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul, and the Epistles of Clement. I highly enjoyed this book and recommend it to you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Please think logically about these "lost books"
Comment: In my opinion there are two different ways to approach the material contained in "The Lost Books of the Bible". You are either reading them as a Christian, who has faith in Jesus Christ ... or you are reading them as a non-Christian who has faith in believing that Jesus was "just a man".
If you are reading it as a Christian, that means that you believe the Bible is God's word. Now why would God have given us the New Testament Bible, yet left out these works if they really were valid and accurate? If you believe that God is good and perfect, does it make sense that God would give us an incomplete story of the most important event in history, leaving out potentially extremely important information? I would say no, and therefore would say that these books, while possibly interesting, must not be elevated to the same level as the material contained in the Bible.
If you are reading it as a non-Christian, you don't believe that the Christian God is true and that He came to earth as Jesus Christ. So, to a non-Christian, what books make up the Bible don't really matter, and these are just as good as any others, including the ones in the canonical Bible. So the question of whether these books should/shouldn't have been included in the Bible is rather moot.
Either way, in my opinion, the question of what the "real" books of the Bible are depends on whether a person is Christian or not. For a person believes in Jesus Christ, they must also believe in the validity of the Bible, and thus that these "lost books" may have been "lost", and they may be interesting to read or study, but they are not lost books "of the Bible", and they were not included in the Bible because they are not part of God's intended communication to us.
I hope that makes sense. :)
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Title: The Secret Teachings of Jesus : Four Gnostic Gospels by MARVIN MEYER ISBN: 0394744330 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes ISBN: 0140278079 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup, Joseph Rowe, Jacob Needleman ISBN: 0892819111 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels ISBN: 0679724532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Nag Hammadi Library in English : Revised Edition by James M. Robinson ISBN: 0060669357 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 21 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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