Knowledge Commons | Christian Apocryphal Literature | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/christian-apocryphal-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Christian Apocryphal Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4d10ba1aaf9cfc3f41ef66969d05bf9a Janet Spittler started the topic October First Friday Workshop with Ian Mills in the forum Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/christian-apocryphal-literature/forum/topic/october-first-friday-workshop-with-ian-mills/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:12:33 -0400 NASSCAL's First Friday Workshop will meet via zoom (as usual) on Friday, October 3 at noon (EDT). Details on the flyer!

]]> 8a3ca9cbf78b8f4f916f9fdf6e645703 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887284/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbcd475794f8e70452b9ff005b47448e Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / De la Memra judía al Logos. O cómo el Verbo (Jesucristo) se hizo carne humana. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876052/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:32 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la respuesta a la pregunta de cómo «el Verbo se hizo carne» es relativamente sencilla de responder, si la contemplamos desde el componente simbólico que le otorgó el misticismo greco-oriental (la inmanencia de un fragmento de divinidad en el interior del individuo) y que encontró su primigenio significado en el discurso narrat…[Read more]

]]> 0 a162350428790c082a78a029a4278d7f Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Arboles sagrados del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876048/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:23 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la cultura del antiguo Israel tampoco escapó a los insoslayables orígenes neolíticos protagonizados por la diosa de la vegetación y por el árbol en el entorno de las primeras culturas agrícolas. El prototipo bíblico del árbol se encontraba en el Edén (el Dilmun mesopotámico y el jardín o paraíso persa: «pairi-daeza…[Read more]

]]> 0 78ae591adb516c1cee58e02571c54aec Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El salvador persa Saoshyant, el fin del mundo y la resurrección de los muertos. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876044/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:15 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 07859d72a3f60f840cee947f07291fe6 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Zoroastro, profeta de Ahura Mazda. En la antesala del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876039/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:08 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la turbación de los padres de la Iglesia de los siglos segundo y tercero no pudo dar respuesta coherente a las sorprendentes semejanzas que encontraron entre la religión de Mitra y el cuerpo de sus doctrinas, todavía heterogéneas y en proceso de formación. No dudamos de que la posición adoptada por Justino, que luego se conver…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e119b28b326d59dafff085af97461e2 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Libro): Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876019/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:41 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, el Mesías-Cristo fue un mito ancestral y arcaico reformulado por las sectas del mesianismo apocalíptico judío y transformado por el gnosticismo y por la Iglesia del siglo segundo. Es decir, un cristianismo judeo-helenístico sin historia evangélica ni «punto cero». Eliseo Ferrer propone en Sacrificio y drama del rey sagrado…[Read more]

]]> 0 79f49682ac8d92540aa59df6009bf73a Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: Ateísmo y materialismo metodológico. Contra las críticas del catolicismo dogmático universitario (corregido). in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873736/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:03:45 -0500 Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

]]> 0 f764ef6cbd7a3d12e772dbb6886f30ce Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Comentario y crítica de Jorge Liberati. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868549/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:57 -0500 Revista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo.

]]> 0 5f1589429ebcc4e3ada588878dc3f97f Eliseo Ferrer deposited Interview: Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868237/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:01:27 -0500 Four intense pages (Revista RELACIONES, Montevideo) in which an atheist materialist speaks in depth about Christianity, religion and the anthropological phenomenon of the sacred.

Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO.
A propósito del largo itinerario temporal de «la genealogía, la antropología y la his…[Read more]

]]> 0 a40ad965cff5d0c5a03d700cfcdddb38 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Una visión diferente de los orígenes cristianos. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836497/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:29:06 -0500 Preámbulo del libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Se añade índice y bibliografía).
Vaya por delante que ésta no es una obra de consenso académico; y tampoco una obra guiada por la fe religiosa, ni por los presupuestos decimonónicos del ateísmo antirreligioso y anticristiano. Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la hu…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2fdef081a61a4fd445f61ce38f75fcb Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Isvara Krishna: «El Cristo desconocido del hinduismo». in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836491/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:58 -0500 Toda la tesis de R. Panikkar estuvo dirigida, dada su tradición intelectual multicultural y multirreligiosa, a «un encuentro sincero» entre el cristianismo y el hinduismo; y quizá por eso subtituló este libro («El Cristo desconocido del hinduismo») con el ambicioso reclamo: «Para una cristofanía ecuménica». No obstante, y para no engañar a…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa4826a51c0b5ba0940958c28af10c77 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Radical criticism of fraudulent and sterile research on the origins of Christianity. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836486/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:51 -0500 Dodecalogue of errors and nonsense / I believe that the secular influence of the theology and dogmatics of the Church (inherited, to a large extent, by the Lutheran reformers), as well as the ideology generated over eighteen centuries on the substratum of the New Testament, have led and They continue to lead in the XXI century to great errors of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7378ab39c4363e89ad39838a14d99818 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Ateísmo y materialismo metodológico. Contra las críticas del catolicismo dogmático universitario. in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835666/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:23:56 -0500 Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d9e3d41510de8306efd07d5299b85db Travis Proctor deposited Hospitality, not Honors: Portraits and Patronage in the Acts of John in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772279/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:24:14 -0500 In this article, I examine how the apocryphal Acts of John depicts wealthy Christian
converts as part of the “Christianization” of Ephesus. I note how the Acts of John
uses its portrayal of leading citizens not only to critique, but to preserve and
adapt prevailing expectations surrounding Greco-Roman cultic patronage. My
analysis com…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2da0e56430fa168e3a88da39b3f9ab4 Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748597/ Sat, 07 Aug 2021 02:23:41 -0400 The city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d4ebf19edcab8ad3d0c32006cbeb76a paul bali deposited crucifix as war trophy, Shakespeare as Ace Face in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745268/ Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:23:58 -0400 an inverted Christology; a take-down of the Bard. but all shall be well, de-inverted, in the end!

]]> 0 d599f3e75ff3cf037fe9991ae9fc4e9b paul bali deposited a game we can't abstain from in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745267/ Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:23:57 -0400 contents

i. a game we can't abstain from
ii. a sudden God, a Boltzmann God
iii. the Hard Problem & Humean causation
iv. Turing gave a recipe for consciousness
v. the Honeymoon Algorithm
vi. Tech Civ takes Earth in
vii. Borges, the Compressor
viii. a Kingdom from the page
ix. Hollywood, where faeries enter
x. in the age of…[Read more]

]]> 0 82f2640cb5e7f497ea0692f2d49b0427 Chance Bonar deposited 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John: A Byzantine Question-and-Answer Dialogue in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743873/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 02:23:49 -0400 Introduction, Greek text, and English translation of 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, a Byzantine question-and-answer dialogue between Abraham and John set after Jesus's ascension.

]]> 0 2164704ed6b2f43e747cef61b8937a3f Ian Brown deposited Where Indeed Was the Gospel of Thomas Written? Thomas in Alexandria in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642604/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:25:24 -0400 This article argues that the Gospel of Thomas was written in Alexandria, not in Eastern Syria as is the current consensus. The arguments in favor of a Syrian Gospel of Thomas are not as strong as is often assumed, and a stronger case can be made for Alexandria. The Gospel of Thomas has a number of features that suggest it was a product of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f955611df64243cb79f215eb523bb7a Philip Harland deposited Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636517/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:33:56 -0400 Article on ancient biographical or autobiographical stories regarding journeys in pursuit of wisdom.

]]> 0 bd1a12051fdf4007c8a50537061f7367 Philip Harland deposited "‘Do Not Deny Me This Noble Death’: Depictions of Violence in the Greek Novels and Apocryphal Acts." in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636498/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:29:40 -0400 Article comparing representations of domestic, civic, and imperial violence in novels and in apocryphal acts.

]]> 0 2c3ff306247b0a798b7c846f4557960a paul bali deposited gender & Judaism: in three popular texts in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614988/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:58:47 -0400 gender & Judaism in A Serious Man [Coen Bros, 2009], An American Dream [Norman Mailer, 1965] and the Pericope Adulterae.

]]> 0 578a6430f4b3421f2fbd2533be11964f Evina Steinova deposited The prehistory of the Latin Acts of Peter (BHL 6663) and the Latin Acts of Paul (BHL 6575). Some observations about the development of the Virtutes apostolorum in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1599500/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 04:12:45 -0500 The extensive chains of excerpts from the Scriptures and other sources in two of the narratives prominent in the Virtutes apostolorum, the Acts of Peter (BHL 6663) and the Acts of Paul (BHL 6575) are studied in order to come to a clearer understanding of the origin of these Latin texts. The Virtutes apostolorum is an amalgam of textual material…[Read more]

]]> 0 57575c862c5409bf843d4be5e14bd08d paul bali deposited literature & rev notes for PHL923 in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596523/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:16:09 -0500 including readings of Joseph McElroy, Tolkien, Norman Rush, Sartre, and others

]]> 0 6e8fa3f6fc8c4131f488fd9caaa73302 paul bali deposited we're bad history in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596513/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:14:52 -0500 on apocalypse, shakespeare, Clarke's Third Law, the corporate take-over of Star Wars and else

]]> 0 1ab48a42068a986490932c24b7f08838 Peter Martens deposited Revisiting the Allegory/Typology Distinction: The Case of Origen in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589334/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:39:02 -0500 There is a significant debate in Origenian scholarship today about the allegory/typology distinction. Some scholars accept the demarcation between these two forms of nonliteral scriptural interpretation, whereas others reject it. In this paper I seek to determine whether, or to what extent, the allegory/typology distinction is valid for study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c3dd1ecda930beb5594459ec1f7b310 Eric Vanden Eykel deposited “Then Suddenly, Everything Resumed Its Course”: The Suspension of Time in the Protevangelium of James Reconsidered in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589307/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:38:18 -0500 The second-century Protevangelium of James contains an enigmatic scene that has fascinated readers for centuries: the stilling of the natural world at the birth of Jesus. Joseph describes the spectacle as he departs the cave in which Mary is laboring: “I looked up at the vault of the sky and saw it fixed. I saw the clouds paused in amazement, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e1027865c7bb9ea859322f924492ace Tony Burke deposited The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575767/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:00:01 -0400 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5b2a9e7fee0e9ef45b00a6f83a1cf93 Hugo Lundhaug deposited Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott, The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices (STAC 97; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015) - Table of Contents in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1574591/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:00:02 -0400 Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott offer a sustained argument for the monastic provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices. They examine the arguments for and against a monastic Sitz im Leben and defend the view that the Codices were produced and read by Christian monks, most likely Pachomians, in the fourth- and fifth-century monasteries of Upper Egypt.…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc79ad73c2e4a1dadabeb5dea1de9dc0 Eric Vanden Eykel deposited "But Their Faces Were All Looking Up": Author and Reader in the Protevangelium of James in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571216/ Sun, 21 May 2017 01:00:08 -0400 This is a study about the Protevangelium of James (PJ), an "infancy gospel" that recounts the birth and childhood of Mary, the mother of Jesus. It is also a study about authors, readers, texts, meaning, and how they are interrelated. In it I aim to take seriously the insights of "intertextuality," not as a matter of source criticism but as an…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc8a3a2d7188c650ac0b403641b8161f Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569189/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:01:27 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 90bd5e76dff1bed54305949723ca8541 Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569169/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:21 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ebbe51c2dddf75f1f283e2254f7468c Tony Burke deposited New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Vol. 1 in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569156/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6cc08565009dff4e3ba6c7851f56087 Tony Burke deposited Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569147/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:03 -0400 In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e087bfd2a70470ed5f6d2c764809bfe3 Eric Vanden Eykel started the topic Source of Group Image in the discussion Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/christian-apocryphal-literature/forum/topic/source-of-group-image/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 18:44:42 -0400 The image of Mary spinning thread in the group icon is from the late-seventeenth century Walters Ms. 36.10 (a Gondarine sensul depicting a number of scenes from the Protevangelium of James).

]]> 8df8fbddc988ae39ca5421578fedba63 Eric Vanden Eykel created the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567546/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 18:11:05 -0400 0