Testament Apocrypha Research Articles

Dating the Commentaries of Nicodemus

Apart from the Gospels themselves, there is perhaps no Christian writing which has enjoyed an influence and an authority at the same time so far flung and so profound as the so-called Gospel of Nicodemus. Yet, outside the studies made by Maury in 1850 and Lipsius in 1871, hardly anything has been done toward a proper assay of this most important of the multitudinous New Testament apocrypha. For that reason, most of the recent articles concerning it, in the standard works of reference, still repeat the erroneous concepts of a century and more ago.

The Apocalypse of Paul and the ‘Iranische Erlösungsmysterium’

Among New Testament apocrypha few have been more consistently neglected by modern scholarship than the so-called Apocalypse of Paul. This represents a strange reversal in the fortunes of the book, since at one time it ruled an almost universal favorite. Diverse tokens of this its original popularity still exist. The first will be found in the multiplicity of its ancient versions, manuscripts of which have been coming to light with some regularity since the eighteenth century, when Assemani indicated the existence of Syriac and Arabic codices in the Vatican Library.

The New Testament Apocrypha with Special Reference to Recent German Contributions: II

Previous articleNext article FreeThe New Testament Apocrypha with Special Reference to Recent German Contributions: IIWilliam Muss-ArnoltWilliam Muss-Arnolt Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 28, Number 2Aug., 1906 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/473790 Views: 40 Journal History This article was published in The Biblical World (1893-1920), which is continued by The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The New Testament Apocrypha with Special Reference to Recent German Contributions: I

Almost simultaneously with the appearance of Volume II of Hennecke's edition of the German translation of the New Testament Apocrypha, an important contribution toward the critical study of the apocryphal correspondence of the CorinthiarIs and Paul the apostle, by Professor Adolf Harnack, was printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, January 5, I905, pp. I-35. This correspondence was considered by many Christian writers of the early church as the principal part of the Acts of Paul. For a long time it was believed to be genuine in the Syriac and the Armenian churches, and even by some Latin theologians. Professor Harnack sets out (I) to restore approximately the original Greek text of this correspondence, and (2) to show the correctness of the testimony of the Coptic translator that it formed an integral part of the early Acts of Paul. The correspondence is preserved in five manuscripts, containing translations into Armenian, Latin, and Coptic of the lost Greek original. The Old Armenian translation was made during the first half of the fifth century. The Syriac text of Ephraem is preserved only in an Armenian rendering of his commentary on this apocryphal correspondence which in his canon is placed between II Corinthians and Galatians. In the two Latin manuscripts the correspondence is found in the one case after the Epistle to the Hebrews considered Pauline and preceding the pseudo-Pauline Epistle to the Laodiceans; in the other manuscript it is placed at the very end of the biblical books following the catholic epistles. These latter are preceded, in turn, by the epistles of Paul and the Apocalypse. The Coptic text is from a papyrus of the sixth century, but the first translation into Coptic from the Greek is probably much