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Note: Starred works are by Quaker authors.
I. Texts
The Apocryphal New Testament; being the apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles, and apocalypses with other narratives and fragments, newly translated by Montague Rhodes James. Oxford, Clarendon, 1953. 594p.
The Apostolic Fathers. Translated by J. B. Lightfoot; edited and completed by J. R. Harmer. Grand Rapids, Baker, 1965. 288p.
Ginzberg, Louis. Legends of the Bible. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1956. 645p. Jewish legends based on O.T. themes, from the author's 7-volume Legends of the Jews.
Gospel according to Thomas. Coptic text established and translated by A. Guillaumont et al. New York, Harper & Row, 1959. 62p. Text and translation of Coptic ms. from Nag Hammadi containing sayings attributed to Jesus.
*[Gospel according to Thomas] The gospel of Thomas, newly presented to bring out the meaning. With introduction, paraphrases and notes by Hugh McGreggor Ross. York, Sessions, 1987. 115p. Edited by an English Quaker.
[Gospel according to Thomas] La buena nueve segun Tomas. Santa Fe, La Hermandad de Cristo, 1978. 34p. Text in Spanish and English.
Josephus, Flavius. The works of Josephus, complete and unabridged. Translated by William Whiston. Updated ed. Peabody MA, Hendrickson, 1987. 926p.
Standard (18th-century) translation of The wars of the Jews, The antiquities of the Jews, and lesser works.
The lost books of the Bible; being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, his apostles and their companions, not included...in the authorized New Testament...NY, Bell, 1979. 293p. Reprint of 1926 ed. of William Hone's collection first pub. 1820 with title "The apocryphal New Testament."
The lost gospel Q: the original sayings of Jesus. Introduction by Thomas Moore; consulting editor: Marcus Borg. Ulysses Press, 1996. 128p.
Maenads, martyrs, matrons, monastics; a sourcebook. Ed. by Ross Kraemer. Philadelphia, Fortress, 1988. 429p. Pagan and nonbiblical Jewish and Christian texts, 400 BC to 500 AD.
The Nag Hammadi Library in English. Ed. by James M. Robinson. 3d ed. San Francisco, Harper, 1988. 549p. Translation of Coptic gnostic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt in 1945.
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Ed. by James H. Charlesworth. Garden City NY, Doubleday 1983-85. 2v. Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings dating between ca. 200 BC and 200 AD. New translations with introductions discussing each work's date, historical, theological and cultural importance, and relation to canonical books.
Philo of Alexandria: The contemplative live, The giants, and selections. Translation and introd. by David Winston. New York, Paulist, 1981. 425p. (Classics of Western spirituality) Anthology presents the thought of the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher and mystic (ca. 20 BC-50 AD)
Schoedel, William R. Ignatius of Antioch; a commentary on the letters. Philadelphia, Fortress, 1985. (Hermeneia) 305p. Includes text of letters.
Vermes, Geza. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. 3d ed. New York, Penguin, 1987. 320p.
We don't speak great things, we live them! A modern English rendition of Mark Felix's Octavius and the First apology of Justin Martyr. Ed. by David W. Bercot. Tyler TX, Scroll, 1989. 158p. Two antenicene defenses of Christianity.
II. History and Criticism
*Cadbury, Henry Joel. The New Testament and early Christian literature. In: Buttrick, G. A., ed. The Interpreter's Bible. 1952-57. v. 7, p. 32-42.
Dart, John. The Jesus of heresy and history: the discovery and meaning of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library. San Francisco, Harper, 1988. 204p.
The Dead Sea Scrolls after forty years. Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution, 1990. \Hershel Shanks and others. Washington, Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991. 85p.
Eisenman, Robert. James the brother of Jesus: the key to unlocking the secrets of early Christianity and the Dead Sea scrolls. Viking, 1996. 1074p.
Grant, Robert and Freedman, David Noel. The secret sayings of Jesus. Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1960. 206p. Translation and discussion of the Gospel according to Thomas.
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic gospels. New York, Random House, 1979. 182p. The Christian gnosticism of the Nag Hammadi codices and its suppression by the orthodox church.
*Ross, Hugh McGregor. Thirty essays on the Gospel of Thomas. Shaftsbury, Dorset, Element Books, 1990. 169p.
Trever, John C. The untold story of Qumran. Westwood NJ, Revell, 1955. 214p.
Wilson, Edmund. The scrolls from the Dead Sea. New York, Oxford, 1955. 121p. "The author visited the Dead Sea site and writes of scrolls and scholars with warmth and feeling."
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