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What’s Featured in Apocrypha for Beginners?
As the marketing description promises, Apocrypha for Beginners features “More than 50 apocrypha―Delve into a variety of apocrypha from different eras and cultures, like the Book of Enoch, the Gospel...
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AFB B-Sides: Letter of Aristeas
Apocrypha for Beginners includes over 50 different apocrypha, but there are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about apocrypha that weren’t included in the book....
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AFB B-Sides: Jesus-Messiah Sutra
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
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AFB B-Sides: Sibylline Oracles
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
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AFB B-Sides: Letters of Christ and Abgar
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
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AFB B-Sides: Dormition of Mary
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
View ArticleFictionality and the Protevangelium of James
I recently had the honor of participating in a Primary Text Lab on the Protevangelium of James hosted by The Brane Collective. It was a great seasonally appropriate event and a lot of fun to think...
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Canonizing Star Wars
I started drafting this piece a while back, intending to publish it somewhere, but then various things happened and I never finished it up. With the release of the first episode of The Book of Boba...
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Response to The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha
Today I had the honor and pleasure of presenting a review response to the recently published book The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha, edited by Gerbern S. Oegema (2021), as part of a Virtual Book...
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A Year in the Life of Apocrypha for Beginners
One year ago today my book Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible was officially released. Over the past year, I have been so happy to see the book...
View ArticleAn Annotated Bibliography for Apocrypha for Beginners
In my book Apocrypha for Beginners, I introduced biblical apocrypha and highlighted a variety of representative works. But this book is only a beginning. This post contains useful resources—some of...
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A Response to the New Good News about Jesus’s Childhood
Have you heard the NEW Good News? Back in the day, when Jesus was still just a guy people were figuring out what to do with, the word “gospel” meant something like “good news.” Just this week, all...
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