The Lost and Hostile Gospels / An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain

Chapter 18: Part III. The Lost Pauline Gospels.

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A critical survey examines apocryphal and otherwise lost Christian writings known only through fragments and hostile references, treating Jewish anti-gospels, the Toledoth Jeschu traditions, several Petrine texts preserved in fragmentary form, and a range of writings linked to Pauline and Gnostic circles. The author analyzes surviving extracts and disputed readings, assesses their origins and relationships, and explores how doctrinal disputes—especially over law and antinomian tendencies—shaped their creation and reception. Attention is also given to the composition and interdependence of the canonical gospel traditions and to methods of textual reconstruction.

Part III. The Lost Pauline Gospels.

Under this head are classed such Gospels as have a distinct anti-Judaizing, Antinomian tendency. They were in use among the Churches of Asia Minor, and eventually found their way into Egypt.

This class may probably be subdivided into those which bore a strong affinity to the Canonical Gospel of St. Luke, and those which were independent compilations.

To the first class belongs—

1. The Gospel of the Lord.

To the second class—

1. The Gospel of Eve.

2. The Gospel of Perfection.

3. The Gospel of Philip.

4. The Gospel of Judas.

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