The “Other” Lost Scriptures (Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls, Slavonic texts break all the rules)

Aletelia ^ | November 3, 2015 | PHILIP JENKINS

[NYer]

Philip Jenkins is a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University and author of The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels
New York: Basic Books, 2015

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Lurking Libertarian]

GGG?

[Sir Napsalot]

save for later

[JRandomFreeper]

At least I identified the alphabet correctly.

I count that as a win for me.

/johnny

[Don Corleone]

As ancient astronaut theorists believe.....

[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve long been under the impression that the Ethiopic Enoch is regarded as authentic, while the Slavonic is regarded as a medieval forgery.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Lurking Libertarian.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

So the Cathars are OK now? Wow!

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[Sawdring]

If you enjoy podcasts, Sharyn Eastaugh has a great one called History of the Crusades. She is now covering the crusade against the Cathars.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

I can read Church Slavonic in various eras, and the picture as shown does not seem to me to have anything to do with Slavonic. Is it a generic picture of an old manuscript to serve as a prop?

[Verginius Rufus]

The text in the photo is definitely Greek—but is it a canonical Biblical text or an apocryphal text?

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. Fascinating discoveries. I am also interested in Wulfila’s Bible.

[RoosterRedux]

bfl

[BlackVeil]

Very fascinating.

[vladimir998]

“Such an explanation makes nonsense of the sharp divisions we normally draw between ancient and medieval religious worlds, and between early and medieval Christianity. Perhaps 13th-century Inquisitors in the era of Aquinas and Francis of Assisi -really were struggling against ideas that originated in Alexandria and Jerusalem at a time when the Second Temple still stood.”

Jenkins is absolutely right on this.

[vladimir998]

“So the Cathars are OK now? Wow!”

Nope. Still heretics.

[shibumi]

" The second book of Enoch tells how the ancient patriarch traveled through the heavens, guided by angels, and witnessed the fate of spiritual beings, good and evil."