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Apocrypha of the New Testament GOSPELS THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS Excerpts from the Gospel of Mary The GOSPEL of the BIRTH OF MARY. The first Gospel of the INFANCY of JESUS CHRIST. THOMAS'S GOSPEL of the INFANCY of JESUS CHRIST. The GOSPEL of NICODEMUS, formerly called the ACTS of PONTIUS PILATE. THE LOST GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PETER EPISTLES THE EPISTLES of JESUS CHRIST and ABGARUS KING of EDESSA. THE EPISTLE of PAUL the APOSTLE to the LAODICEANS. The EPISTLES of PAUL the APOSTLE to SENECA, with SENECA'S to PAUL. THE EPISTLE OF PONTIUS PILATE The FIRST EPISTLE of CLEMENT to the CORINTHIANS. The SECOND EPISTLE of CLEMENT to the CORINTHIANS. The GENERAL EPISTLE OF BARNABAS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the EPHESIANS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the MAGNESIANS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the TRALLIANS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the ROMANS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the PHILADELPHIANS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the SMYRNAeANS. The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to POLYCARP. The EPISTLE of POLYCARP to the PHILIPPIANS. OTHERS THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS. The Second Book of HERMAS, called his COMMANDS. The Third Book of HERMAS, which is called his SIMILITUDES. LETTER OF HEROD TO PILATE THE GOVERNOR. The PROTEVANGELION; The ACTS of PAUL and THECLA. The APOSTLES' CREED. Apocrypha of the Old Testament THE FIRST BOOK OF Adam and Eve THE SECOND BOOK OF Adam and Eve THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF ENOCH. THE PSALMS OF SOLOMON THE ODES OF SOLOMON. THE LETTER OF ARISTEAS FOURTH BOOK OF MACCABEES THE STORY OF AHIKAR The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs TESTAMENT OF REUBEN TESTAMENT OF SIMEON TESTAMENT OF LEVI THE TESTAMENT OF JUDAH THE TESTAMENT OF ISSACHAR THE TESTAMENT OF ZEBULUN THE TESTAMENT OF DAN THE TESTAMENT OF NAPHTALI THE TESTAMENT OF GAD THE TESTAMENT OF ASHER THE TESTAMENT OF JOSEPH THE TESTAMENT OF BENJAMIN

Available versions and sources William Wake and Solomon Caesar Malan version (default version) : Translated by William Wake (1693) and Solomon Caesar Malan (1882) The first half of the book, originay entitled 'The Lost Books of the Bible' [1926] is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake. The second half of the book, The Forgotten Books of Eden, includes a translation originally published in 1882 of the First and Second Books of Adam and Eve, translated first from ancient Ethiopic to German by Ernest Trumpp and then into English by Solomon Caesar Malan, and a number of items of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, such as reprinted in the second volume of R.H. Charles's Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913). - Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, August 2009, by John Bruno Hare.