L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #195 So I have my NT apocrypha ... now what?
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This tip is inspired by the forum post: L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #194 Deuterocanonical and Pseudepigrapha indices - Logos Forums
So some Logosians buy packages including some New Testament apocrypha texts, get curious about the contents through the Ancient Literature Guide section ... and look at the text with a blank stare i.e. have no idea how to use it, what to look for in reading it. Seminarians can run to a professor. But the rest of us do have the next best thing.
Evans, Craig A., J. Christopher Edwards, and Cecilia Wassén, eds. Early New Testament Apocrypha. Vol. 9. Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2022.
For each apocryphal text in the anthology there is a section "Key Passages for New Testament Studies and their Significance". Maybe not quite as a professor you can ask questions of, but these sections do provide a very nice walkthrough of what to look for when reading NT apocrypha.
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