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Apocryphal Writings Overview
Customers express skepticism and uncertainty regarding the authenticity of the apocryphal writings presented in the book, while some find it a valuable resource for understanding Gnostic gospels. The book's printing quality is also criticized.
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By no means exhaustive, i commend this book to you as a fantastic overview and a quick and interesting read that will serve as ... Read More
This is a good basic description of what the gnostic gospels are.
The contents of this book evoke strong concern whether many of the recently found documents are real.
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new, found, many, good and written. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 105 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 4 2024.
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It is not written by what you would think of as a christian perspective
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It is however not disrespectful
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This is a history of the noncanonical books of the new testament not the books themselves
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I was surprised to know that most of the socalled 34gospels34 are historically irrelevant to know what happened in jesus life and that the most serious candidates to reveal something new about him were only 34recently34 discovered — this is in the last century
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One of the gospels was found in an ancient trash heap in egypt
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Anyone purporting to be a biblical scholar needs to read this to have a complete understanding of why certain books were included in the bible and why some were not and howwhenwhy those decisions were made
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Its interesting to read what didnt make it into the bible
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The bible states there were more apostles than the main identified set
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