Word: apocrypha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries a story, crying to be told and retold, has haunted the hearts and minds of men: the story of Jesus. Its source material is seed-small: the four Gospels, the New Testament apocrypha, the histories of Josephus, the pseudepigrapha.* Yet its literature is enormous. In Chautauqua, N. Y., famed cultural and religious resort, an Aula Christi (Hall of Christ) contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman...
...Pseudonymous writings like the Book of Enoch and other early Eastern texts. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan Humanist and Bible expert, has worked for years, will work for years more, on a psychological study of Jesus in which the pseudepigrapha will figure. Most authoritative collection of New Testament apocrypha: The Apocryphal New Testament, edited by M. R. James (Oxford University Press...
...cover the war. Correspondent Bellairs scooped Richard Harding Davis and many another prima donna on the attack on the U. S. torpedo-boat Winslow, returned to St. Louis a newspaperman's hero, went back to covering police. Around him have been woven some of the best-known newspaper apocrypha of that newspaperman's town. Samples...
Tallest tale in the Salop apocrypha is the story that he cannot read or write, has only recently learned to sign his name...
...Testament (Apocrypha) relates that the Angel Raphael led the younger Tobias on a journey to collect a debt owed to blind Tobias the elder. Guided by the Angel, little Tobias returned with, among other things, a fish (see cut) whose gall restored his father's vision...