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Word: pseudepigrapha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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