Christian Apocrypha Site of the Week 3
I have been thinking this past week about the typical contents of CA collections and what texts tend to be included and what get left out. The parameters are usually temporal—i.e., most collections include only material that is pre-Constantinian (the Pleiades collection is an exception)—though earlier studies of CA did include some later texts because there were not that many texts yet available. This led me on a search for some of these forgotten texts; many of which are found on the Church Fathers page of the New Advent site (scroll down to “Apocrypha”).
The English translations of the texts offered here are quite old and often unacknowledged. But they do offer the reader a glimpse at the texts as they were known to scholars at the end of the nineteenth century (or thereabouts). For some, more work has been done in the interim, but many have yet to be examined in sufficient detail. Here are a few of the more interesting texts: