Even More Christian Apocrypha
Issued Date: 4 Jun 2020
Abstract
New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, edited by Tony Burke and Brent Landau, was published in 2017. It is the first in a series of volumes of apocryphal Christian texts in English translation. This article offers some reflections on the reception of the volume—with a summary of and response to reviews in journals and two panel discussions—and on the process of assembling a second volume to be published in 2020. The article describes the contents of the second volume with particular emphasis on several Johannine apocrypha related to erōtapokriseis (or “question-and-answer” literature) and two texts that may reflect Chistian-Muslim interaction in late antique Egypt. The article concludes with a preliminary list of the texts to be included in a third volume to follow in 2022.
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DOI: 10.1558/bsor.38414
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Apocalyse Apocryphe de saint Jean et dans les Quaestiones ad
Antiochum Ducem.” In Soyez des changuers avisés. Controverses
exégétiques dans la littérature apocryphe chrétienne, edited by
Gabriella Aragione and Rémi Gounelle, 145–61. Cahiers de Biblia
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10.1484/m.ipm-eb.1.101149.<br>
Walker, Alexander, ed. and trans. 1873. Apocryphal Gospels, Acts and
Revelations. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.
Brakke, David. 2017. “The Abundant, Never-ending Christian
Apocrypha, Which No List Can Contain.” Apocryphicity.
http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2017/11/28/guest-post-david-brakke-abundant-never-ending-christian-apocrypha/.<br>
Burke, Tony. 2012. “More Christian Apocrypha.” Bulletin for the
Study of Religion 41 (3): 16–21. https://doi.org/<br>
10.1558/bsor.v41i3.16<br>
———. 2016a. “2016 CSBS/CSPS More New Testament Apocryphal Panel
(Part 1).” Apocryphicity.
http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2016/06/12/2016-csbscsps-more-new-testament-apocrypha-panel-part-1/.<br>
———. 2016b. “2016 CSBS/CSPS More New Testament Apocryphal Panel
(Part 2).” Apocryphicity.
http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2016/06/12/2016-csbscsps-more-new-testament-apocrypha-panel-part-2/.<br>
———. 2017. “2017 SBL Diary: Day Three.” Apocryphicity.
http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2017/11/29/2017-sbl-diary-day-three/.<br>
———. 2018a. “On Byzantine Apocrypha and Erotapokriseis Literature.”
Apocryphicity.
http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2018/07/29/on-byzantine-apocrypha-and-erotapokriseis-literature/.<br>
———. 2018b. “The Stoning of the Devil (Ramy al-Jamarat) in Coptic
Christian Apocrypha.” Apocryphicity.
http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2018/08/17/the-stoning-of-the-devil-ramy-al-jamarat-in-coptic-christian-apocrypha/.<br>
Court, John M. 2000. The Book of Revelation and the Johannine
Apocalyptic Tradition. JSNTS 190. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930602220487.<br>
Elliott, J. K. ed. and trans. 1993. The Apocryphal New Testament: A
Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English
Translation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046900011623.<br>
Foster, Paul. 2017. Review of New Testament Apocrypha: More
Noncanonical Scriptures vol.1, edited by Tony Burke and Brent
Landau. Novum Testamentum 59: 437–40.
https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341565.<br>
Jenkins, Philip. 2017. “Christian Apocrypha and Alternative
Scriptures.” Anxious Bench. https://www.patheos.<br>
com/blogs/anxiousbench/2017/11/christian-apocrypha-alternative-scriptures-draw-lines/.<br>
Krasnoseltsev, Nikolai F. 1898. Addenda “Anecdota Graeco-Byzantina”
(in Russian). Odessa: Economicheskaa Tipografia. <br>
Lambrecht, Jan. 2017. Review of New Testament Apocrypha: More
Noncanonical Scriptures vol.1, edited by Tony Burke and Brent
Landau. Analecta Bollandiana 135 (1): 194–95.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0014524617746878.<br>
McDowell, Gavin. 2017. Review of New Testament Apocrypha: More
Noncanonical Scriptures vol.1, edited by Tony Burke and Brent
Landau. Apocrypha 28: 241–52.
https://doi.org/10.1484/j.apocra.5.115433.<br>
Nau, François. 1914. “Une deuxième apocalypse apocryphe grecque de
Saint Jean.” Revue biblique NS 11 (2): 209–21.<br>
Orlandi, Tito. 2002. “The Library of the Monastery of Saint Shenute
at Atripe.” In Perspectives on Panopolis: An Egyptian Town from
Alexander the Great to the Arab Conques, edited by Arno Egberts,
Brian P. Muhs, and Jacques van der Vliet, 211–32. Papyrologica
Lugduno-Batava 31. Leiden: Brill.<br>
Papadoyannakis, Yannis. 2006. “Instruction by Question and Answer:
The Case of Late Antique and Byzantine Erotapokriseis.” In Greek
Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism,
edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, 91–105. New York: Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315585864.<br>
Peters, F. E. 1994. A Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton
University Press.<br>
Puech, Henri-Charles, and Beate Blatz. 1991. “Fragments of a
Dialogue between John and Jesus.” In New Testament Apocrypha, vol 1,
edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher, 388–89. Translated by Robert
McLachlan Wilson. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.<br>
Schenke, Hans-Martin. 2012. “Die Fragmente eines Gesprächs des
Johannes mit Jesus.” In Antike christliche Apokryphen in deutscher
Übersetzung. Vol. 1.1: Evangelien und Verwandtes, edited by
Christoph Markschies and Jens Schröter, 1217–19. Tübingen: Mohr
Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341422.<br>
Schneemelcher, Wilhelm. 1991. General Introduction to New Testament
Apocrypha, edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher 9–75. Translated by
Robert McLachlan Wilson. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox
Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600036449.<br>
Suciu, Alin. 2017. The Berlin-Strausbourg Apocryphon: A Coptic
Apostolic Memoir. WUNT 370. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.<br>
Szymański, Tadeusz. 1995. Studium z bulgarskiej dialektologii
historycznej: Z historii dialektu okolic miasta Ruse. Kraków:
Universitas.<br>
Tichonravov, Nikolai S. 1863. Pamjatniki otrečennoj russkoj
literatury. 2 vols. Moscow: Obščestv. Pol’za.<br>
Tischendorf, Constantin. 1866. Apocalypses apocryphae. Leipzig,
Mendelssohn.<br>
Tóth, Péter. 2017. “New Wine in Old Wineskin: Byzantine Reuses of
the Apocryphal Revelation Dialogue.” In Dialogues and Debates from
Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, edited by Averil Cameron and Niels
Gaul, 77–93. New York: Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315269443/.<br>
Vassiliev, Athanasius. 1893. Anecdota graeco-byzantina, pars prior.
Moscow: Imperial University. <br>
Vianès, Laurence. 2012. “Les citations bibliques dans la Première
Apocalyse Apocryphe de saint Jean et dans les Quaestiones ad
Antiochum Ducem.” In Soyez des changuers avisés. Controverses
exégétiques dans la littérature apocryphe chrétienne, edited by
Gabriella Aragione and Rémi Gounelle, 145–61. Cahiers de Biblia
Patristica 12. Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg.
https://doi.org/<br>
10.1484/m.ipm-eb.1.101149.<br>
Walker, Alexander, ed. and trans. 1873. Apocryphal Gospels, Acts and
Revelations. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.
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