Great Accomplishment, January 11, 2012

Great resource for those of us interested in non-canonical Christian literature. Specially because it provides these apocryphal gospels in their original languages along with very good translations, something that is difficult to find. This book gives you the complete text of the gospels, and not mere portions or summaries as other collections do one. Although it is not an exhaustive compilation of the apocryphal gospels as I would have liked it to be, for it does not include works such as the "Gospel of Philip", "Gospel of Truth", "Coptic Gospel of the Savior" "The Arabic Infancy Gospel" ,etc. But the authors do provide a reasonable explanation for the omission of such works. And last but certainly not least is the price of the book, getting a collection of ancient Gospels for less than $30 is just awesome.For more collections of non-canonical Christian literature in English translation look for:...

Overall, this is an excellent resource with interlinear texts. I purchased the Kindle version, which is only problematic in that the reason for purchasing an interlinear text is to see original language and translation side-by-side for textual comparison. The format made it awkward.

Brill Translation of the Gospel of Thomas into English by Schoedel et al. may be the finest gift in the memory of Didymus the Blind, an ardent critic of Gnostic writings, revered as an eminent Christian scholar of the fourth century. Didymus ancient Bible commentaries, discovered in Tourah, in Egypt initiated Bart Ehrman career in textual criticism, with his study of the Gospel texts quoted by Didymus of his prodigious memory.Bart Ehrman, the New York Times best selling author, and a recognized authority on the early non canonical Christian writings, with Zlatko Plese, a scholar of Ancient religions, offer a grass roots, Bi-lingual edition with an English translation of the Apocryphal Gospels, one that breathes new life into the Apocryphal texts that were mainly recovered half a century ago in Chenoboskion, after being mostly lost.This is an affordable, single-volume collection of apocryphal gospels, a remarkable handy work. It includes Infancy...