Apocryphal Gospels

READING LIST Spring 2025

RT2522 Apocryphal Gospels, Advanced level 7,5 hp

Books:

Bockmuehl, Marcus
Ancient Apocryphal Gospels. Interpretation.
Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017), 237p.

Ehrman, Bart D. and Zlatko Plese.
The Apocryphal Gospels. Text and Translation
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 611 p (selection).

Goodacre, Marc
Thomas and the Gospels. The Case for Thomas’s Familiarity with
the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012 or London: SPCK, 2012), 230 p.

Foster, Paul
The Apocryphal Gospels. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009), 137 p.

Online articles:

Koester, Helmut
“Apocryphal and Canonical Gospels.” In The Harvard Theological
Review, Jan. - Apr., 1980, Vol. 73, No. 1/2, pp. 105–130.

Yoshiko Reed, Annette
“The Afterlives of New Testament Apocrypha.”
 In Journal of Biblical Literature. Vol. 134, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 401–425.

Patterson, Stephen J
“Apocryphal Gospels.” In The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
(London: Doubleday, 1990), 2.1079–1082.

Patterson, Stephen J.
“New Testament Apocrypha.” In The Anchor Yale Bible
Dictionary (London: Doubleday, 1990), 1.294–297.

More articles will be added.

All articles will be available on Canvas.