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Apocryphal books (New Testament)

Here are entered collections of texts of those books excluded from the Catholic and Protestant canons of the New Testament. Works on individual books of this group are entered under their own title.

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• The Lost Books of the Bible (New York: Alpha House, 1926), ed. by William Hone, Jeremiah Jones, William Wake, and Rutherford Hayes Platt (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Apocryphal Books of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Gebbie and Co., c1890), ed. by William Hone, Jeremiah Jones, and William Wake (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Apocryphal Books of the New Testament (Philadelphia: David McKay, c1901), ed. by William Hone, Jeremiah Jones, and William Wake
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Apocryphal New Testament: Being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses, With Other Narratives and Fragments (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1924), trans. by M. R. James
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Didache: or, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (London: David Nutt, 1894), ed. by Charles H. Hoole
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • with most Greek portions omitted: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Forgotten Books of Eden, ed. by Rutherford Hayes Platt (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the Original New Testament of Jesus Christ, contrib. by William Wake and Edward Hancock (Gutenberg text)

• Strange New Gospels, by Edgar J. Goodspeed (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der Neutestamentlichen Apokryphen (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1909), by Walter Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1874), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg multiple formats)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Antiquitates Apostolicae: or, The Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of Our Saviour; To Which Are Added, Lives of the Two Evangelists, St. Mark and St. Luke; As Also, a Brief Enumeration and Account of the Apostles and Their Successors for the First Three Hundred Years, in the Five Great Apostolical Churches (2 volumes; London: J. Hatchard and Son; et al., 1834), by William Cave, contrib. by Henry Stebbing
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The Training of the Twelve, by Alexander Balmain Bruce (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Our New Testament: How Did We Get It? (Philadelphia et al.: Griffith and Rowland press, 1908), by Henry C. Vedder
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gnomon Novi Testamenti, in Quo Ex Nativa Verborum vi Simplicitas Profunditas Concinnitas Salubritas Sensuum Coelestium Indicatur (second edition, in Latin; Tubingen: I. H. P. Schramm, 1759), by Johann Albrecht Bengel, ed. by Ernest Bengel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gnomon of the New Testament (5 volumes; Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1858), by Johann Albrecht Bengel, ed. by A. R. Fausset, contrib. by Ernest Bengel and J. C. F. Steudel (page images at HathiTrust; v4 and v5 labels may be switched)
• The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha (c. 850 A.D.) in Syriac and English (3 volume edition (without later volumes); Cambridge, UK: University Press, 1911), by Isho'-dad of Merv, ed. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson, contrib. by J. Rendel Harris
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Kingdom (with other books by this author), by Witness Lee (frame-dependent HTML at ministrybooks.org)

• Dictionary and Concordance of Bible Words and Synonyms: Exhibiting the Use of Above Ten Thousand Greek and English Words Occurring in Upwards of Eighty Thousand Passages of the New Testament So As to Form a Key to the Hidden Meanings of the Sacred Scripture (Edinburgh: G. A. Young; New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1883), by Robert Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, in a Letter to a Friend (reprinted from Horsley's edition of Newton's works; London: Printed by R. Taylor, 1830), by Isaac Newton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mary: What the Bible Really Says (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, c1998), by Douglas Connelly (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Appeasement or Resistance, and Other Essays on New Testament Judaism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by David Daube (HTML at UC Press)
• The Doctrine of the Greek Article, Applied to the Criticism and Illustration of the New Testament (new edition; Cambridge, UK: J. and JJ. Deighton; London: J. G. and F. Rivington, 1833), by T. F. Middleton, ed. by Hugh James Rose
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Not Paul, but Jesus (London: Printed for John Hunt, 1823), by Jeremy Bentham (page images at Google)
• A Series of Fifty-Two Bible Lessons, For the Use of Intermediate and Advanced Classes in the Sunday-School (Louisville: Guide Print and Pub. Co., 1889), by J. W. McGarvey (HTML at trchurchofchrist.com)
• Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ, by Alfred Edersheim (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation (popular edition; London: Watts and Co., 1902), by Walter Richard Cassels (HTML at Freethought Archives)
• The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament, by Charles Foster Kent (Gutenberg text)

• Their Hollow Inheritance: A Comprehensive Refutation of Christian Missionaries (third edition), by Michoel Drazin (frame-dependent HTML in Israel)

• Gnomon Novi Testamenti, in Quo Ex Nativa Verborum vi Simplicitas Profunditas Concinnitas Salubritas Sensuum Coelestium Indicatur (second edition, in Latin; Tubingen: I. H. P. Schramm, 1759), by Johann Albrecht Bengel, ed. by Ernest Bengel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gnomon of the New Testament (5 volumes; Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1858), by Johann Albrecht Bengel, ed. by A. R. Fausset, contrib. by Ernest Bengel and J. C. F. Steudel (page images at HathiTrust; v4 and v5 labels may be switched)

• The Origin of the New Testament (London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1909), by William Wrede, trans. by James S. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament, by Charles Foster Kent (Gutenberg text)

• A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (5 volumes in 2 divisions; T. and T. Clark, 1890), by Emil Schürer, trans. by John Macpherson, Sophia Taylor, and Peter Christie (all volumes, and volumes from other editions: page images at HathiTrust)

• New Testament Introduction (1915), by Louis Berkhof (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Story of the New Testament (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921), by Edgar J. Goodspeed (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Appeasement or Resistance, and Other Essays on New Testament Judaism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by David Daube (HTML at UC Press)
• Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths (New York: Harper and Bros., 1870), by Lyman Abbott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Doctrine of the Last Things: Jewish and Christian (London: John Murray, 1908), by W. O. E. Oesterley (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• How to Teach the New Testament (New York: James Pott, 1882), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at anglican.org)
• A Series of Fifty-Two Bible Lessons, For the Use of Intermediate and Advanced Classes in the Sunday-School (Louisville: Guide Print and Pub. Co., 1889), by J. W. McGarvey (HTML at trchurchofchrist.com)

• Über Aufgabe und Methode der Sogenannten Neutestamentlichen Theologie (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1897), by William Wrede (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essentials of New Testament Doctrine, by Ernest L. Martin (HTML with commentary at askelm.com)

• New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The First Printed English New Testament (with facsimile pages from parts of Tyndale's translation; 1871), ed. by Edward Arber, contrib. by William Tyndale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• On the Authorized Version of the New Testament, in Connection With Some Recent Proposals for its Revision (New York: Redfield, 1858), by Richard Chenevix Trench
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• In the Shadow of Sinai: A Story of Travel and Research from 1895 to 1897 (Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Bowes, 1898), by Agnes Smith Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

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