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Whose Apocrypha?
… canon is a subject of Church history. When we use the word apocrypha we generally have reference to writings of a bygone … and rejecting is what causes some books to be known as apocrypha and some to be known as canon. The word apocrypha …
Joseph Smith’s Developing Relationship with the Apocrypha
… historical question at hand, how Joseph Smith used the Apocrypha and what relationship that body of literature had … of themes, concepts, teachings, and phraseology from the Apocrypha in the Prophet’s writings has been viewed as …
Lying for God
… a body of co-religionists. I will be using the term apocrypha in the manner suggested by C. C. Torrey [1] to mean … languages and recensions, see C. Tischendorf, Apocalypses apocryphae (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1866; reprint ed., 1966), …
“Whoso Is Enlightened . . . Shall Obtain Benefit”
… As an enthusiastic reader of the Apocrypha, I have been surprised to find that Mormons don’t … indicated that less than 2 percent of us have read the Apocrypha, fewer than one in four have read anything in it, … the possibilities of the Apocrypha as literature with the Apocrypha’s own artful closing: And if I have done well, and …
False Gospels
… Unfortunately, the term apocrypha is not used consistently to describe one body of … speaks to the heart of the debate over the New Testament apocrypha’s value because it shows that books were included …
Apocryphal Literature—Those “Hidden” Books in the Stacks
… a Lutheran theological student, I had barely heard of the apocrypha. My first paper for Biblical Interpretation 211 was an exposition of the Old Testament Apocrypha, that wonderful collection of fourteen books of …
Intertestamental Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls
… used the Septuagint when they quoted scripture. The Apocrypha The Additions to Daniel in the Apocrypha include … that they should be buried, hidden, and forgotten. The Apocrypha’s canonical history has been a roller-coaster ride. …
Apocryphal Literature and the Latter-day Saints
… Smith should concern himself with the books known as the Apocrypha was presented to the Lord. The answer reads: 1. Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you concerning the Apocrypha—There are many things contained therein that are …
Noncanonical Gospels
… to someone who did not write it. And the English word apocrypha (singular, apocryphon) comes from the Greek … Teaching of John. Other Christians, however, used the term apocrypha pejoratively to describe texts they considered …
The Origin and Formation of the Corpus of Apocryphal Literature
… value and importance to the hearer. The roots of the word apocrypha are kryptō and the prepositional prefix apo : … interesting accounts relating to Jewish scriptures and apocrypha is that found in 2 Esdras 14. According to the …
