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Prof. Keith Elliott “What makes a book ‘holy scripture’?” (live lecture)
March 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
£5Professor Elliott will concentrate on the New Testament but will discuss why, for instance, the Gospel of Thomas or the so-called gnostic gospels (which Dan Brown relied on to claim that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene) are not ‘holy scripture’.
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Professor Elliott has suggested these texts for further reading related to his lecture:
J.K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation based on M.R. James (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993; paperback 2005) .
J.K.Elliott, The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996; revised paperback 2006).
David R. Cartlidge and J. Keith Elliott, Art and the Christian Apocrypha (London and New York
Routledge, 2001).
Edgar J. Goodspeed, Strange New Gospels (New York: Books for Libraries — Essay Index Reprint Series) , 1971 based on the 1931 edition).
Elaine Pagels and Karen King, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (New York and. London: Penguin Books; paperback 2007).
Richard Valentasis, The Gospel of Thomas (London and New York: Routledge, 1997).