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The Other Gospels
Assignment:
what type of writing is it: a sayings gospel, a narrative gospel?
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what, specifically, identifies this as being gnostic? how does it contradict the canonical gospels?
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The Gospel of the Savior
- second or third century work ,
-containing alleged sayings of Jesus, Jesus at the last supper and then at his cruxafiction
- is a narrative gospel, used pronouns like i and we.
- two fragmentary manuscripts
The Gospel of Peter
- second century, - account of Jesus' death and resurrection
- fragmented work remains
- forbade its use because it contained passages that could be used to support heretical ideas
The Gospel of Thomas
- may include some material older than anything in the canonical gospels
-no copies thought to exist, yet is referenced by early church leaders
-first century
- book does not contain any stories about Jesus, but just secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymus Judas Thomas recorded.
The Apocryphon of James
-may have been produced as early as the first half of the second century
-discourse given to James and Peter by the risen Jesus just before his ascension.
-discovered at Nag Hammadi in1945
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The Gospel of Judas
- mid-second century work
- the secret account of the judgement that Jesus pronounced to Judas over eight days, leading up to the three days before he observed passover
-only became available in 2004, but existence has been known
-series of homilies addressed by Jesus to Judas
- all of these homilies present Jesus as an exponent of Gnostic ideology
The Gospel of Mary
- An account of Jesus' revelations to his friend Mary Magdalene
- probably from the second century
-recounts what Mary had told the disciples Jesus had disclosed to her
- half the pages missing form manuscript
- offers some insights into the complex cosmology of Gnosticism
-power struggles in early church to restrict roles of women in the church
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The Gospel of Philip
-third century work
- not a gospel in any way,
- notes from the teachings and preaching of some unknown church leader
-does not actually purport to report the teachings of Jesus or events from his life