Abstract
The New Testament Apocrypha is a kind of phenomenon in early Christian literature, where features of ancient and Christian ideology are combined. The Apocrypha is a “practical” component of early Christian anthropology, since the Apocrypha embodied the holistic images of people, the so-called “ideal Christians”. The study analyzes the New Testament Apocryphal litera-ture, in particular, examines the texts of the Apocryphal Gospels (“The First Gospelˮ of James, “The Gospel of the Birth of the Ever Virgin Maryˮ, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Nicodemus) and the Apocryphal Acts in order to form a complex and systematic representation of the image of a woman in early Christianity, as well as in order to reveal the influence of apocryphal texts on the formation of the status of women in society, which is of fundamental importance in determining the place and role of women in subsequent periods of development of Christianity. In the course of the study, it was found that it was the New Testament apocryphal literature, along with the canonical texts, that had a great influence on the formation of the female image during the formation of early Christian ideology.
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