ANCIENT EXTRA-BIBLICAL TEXTS

 

 

 

Abbott, Edwin A. Light on the Gospel from an Ancient Poet. 1912. 667 pp. Detailed study of the Odes of Solomon. English translation. Pseudepigrapha. 1375. $45.

 

Tischendorf, Constantinus. Evangelium Palatinum Ineditum. 1847. 483 large pp. Transcribed text of an important Old Latin manuscript of the Gospels. Introduction. 1365. $45.

 

Von Gall, August Freiherr. Der Hebraische Pentateuch der Samaritaner. 1918. 550 large pp. The standard critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch. German introduction, large critical apparatus. 1366. $50.

 

Von Soden, Hans Freiherr. Das Lateinische Neue Testament in Afrika zur Zeit Cyprians. 1909. 673 pp. A major work on the Old Latin version. Reconstructed Old Latin text, critical apparatus, German introduction. 1367. $45.

 

Whish, Henry. Clavis Syriaca: A Key to the Ancient Syriac Version Called “Peshito” of the Four Holy Gospels. 1883. 588 pp. A verse-by-verse lexical and grammatical commentary. 1368. $40.

 

White, Joseph. Sacrorum Evangeliorum Versio Syriaca Philoxeniana . . . Actuum Apostolorum tam Catholicarum Quam Paulinarum Versio Syriaca Philoxenian. 1778. 4 vols: c. 350 large pp. each. Editio princeps of the Philoxenian (now identified as the Harklean) version of the Syriac N.T. Syriac text, Latin translation, critical notes, Latin introduction. 1369. $160.

 

Wilson, Robert Dick. Elements of Syriac Grammar by an Inductive Method. 1891. 209 pp. 1370. $20.

 

Winer, George. Grammar of the Chaldee Language. 1851. 152 pp. Aramaic of the Bible and Targums. 1371. $20.

 

Wordsworth, John. Old Latin Biblical Texts. 1883. 7 vols: c. 240 large pp. each. An important collection of MSS of the N.T. and the Biblical text of Irenaeus. Introductions, notes. 1372. $175.

 

Young, Robert. Christology of the Targums. ND. 76 pp. Aramaic text, English translation of the Messianic verses. 1373. $20.

 

(Anonymous) A Dissertation on the Chronology of the Septuagint. 1741. 423 pp. 1374. $35.

 

Abrahams, I. Studies in Pharisaism and the Gospels. 1917. 425 pp. Jewish writer compares and contrasts the Gospels with rabbinic sources. 1376. $35.

Baikie, James. Egyptian Papyri and Papryus Hunting. 1925. 324 pp. An important work on papyrology. 1377. $30.

 

Bar-Hebraeus. Gregory Abu’l Faraj, Commonly Called Bar-Hebraeus, Commentary on the Gospels from the Horreum Musteriorum. 1925. 500 pp. Syriac text, English translation, introduction. Influential medieval Eastern commentary. 1378. $35.

 

Bardsley, Herbert James. Reconstructions of Early Christian Documents. 1935.  454 pp. Source criticism and patristica. 1379. $35.

 

Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Lost and Hostile Gospels. 1874. 395 pp. On the Toldoth Jeshu, apocryphal gospels, references in Celsus, Josephus and the Talmud. 1380. $30.

 

Bartlet, J.V., et. al. The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers. 1905. 110 pp. Comparison of the Greek texts. 1381. $20.

 

Bensly, R.L. The Fourth Book of Maccabees and Kindred Documents      in Syriac. 1895. 220 pp. Syriac text,    English translation, introduction. Apocrypha.       1382. $25.

 

Bensly, Robert. The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra. 1875. 100 large pages. Text, introduction, commentary. Pseudepigrapha. 1383. $20.

 

Bernard, J.H. The Odes of Solomon. 1912. 141 pp. English translation, introduction, commentary. Pseudepigrapha. 1384. $20.

 

Box, G.H. The Apocalypse of Abraham. 1919. 99 pp. [and] R.H. Charles. The Ascension of Isaiah. 1919. 62 pp.   English translation, notes, introductions. Pseudepigrapha. 1385. $20.

 

Box, G.H. The Ezra-Apocalypse. 1912. 464 pp. English translation, large commentary, introduction. Pseudepigrapha. 1386. $35.

 

Breasted, James Henry. Ancient Records of Egypt. 1906. 5 vols: c. 400 pp. each. English translation of all the main documents and inscriptions. 1387. $160.

 

Bridges, Matthew. The Testimony of Profane Antiquity to the Account Given by Moses of Paradise and the Fall of Man. 1825. 234 pp. Parallels and contrasts from extra-biblical literature. 1388. $25.

 

Brooks, E.W. Joseph and Asenath. 1918. 88 pp. English translation, introduction, notes. Pseudepigrapha. 1389. $20.

 

Bryant, Jacob. The Sentiments of Philo Judaeus Concerning the Logos, or Word of God. 1797. 300 pp. Johannine parallels. 1390. $30.

 

Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Book of the      Cave of Treasures. 1927. 319 pp. English translation from the Syriac. Patristica.     1391. $30.

 

Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Chronography of Gregory Abu’l Faraj . . . Commonly Known as Bar Hebraeus. 1932. 2 vols: 645, 225 pp. Facsimile Syriac text, English translation, introduction. Medieval patristica. 1392. $70.

 

Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Contendings of the Apostles. 1935. 615 pp. Lives of the Apostles and evangelists translated into English from Ethiopic. Patristica. 1393. $45.

 

Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus. 1897. 401 pp. Syriac text, English translation, introduction. Medieval patristica. 1394. $35.

 

Burkitt, F. Crawford. S. Ephraim’s Quotations from the Gospel. 1901. 102 pp. Patristica. 1395. $20.

 

Charles, R.H. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. 1913. 2 vols: 696, 885 large pp. English translations of all major non-canonical writings. Introductions, commentary, indices. An epochal work. 1396. $120.

 

Charles, R.H. The Apocalypse of Baruch. 1896. 261 pp. English translation, introduction, notes. Pseudepigrapha.    1397. $25.

 

Charles, R.H. The Ascension of Isaiah. 1900. 228 pp. English translation, introduction, commentary. Pseudepigrapha. 1398. $25.

 

Charles, R. H. The Assumption of    Moses. 1897. 169 pp. Latin text,       English translation, introduction, notes. Pseudepigrapha. 1399. $20.

 

Charles, R.H. The Book of Enoch, or 1 Enoch. 1912. 441 pp. English translation from the Ethiopic, introduction, commentary, essays. Pseudepigrapha. 1400. $35.

 

Charles, R.H. The Book of Jubilees,       or the Little Genesis. 1917. 224 pp. English translation, introduction, notes. Pseudepigrapha. 1401. $25.

 

Charles, R.H. The Greek Versions of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. 1908. 384 pp. Critical Greek text, introduction, variations of the Armenian, Slavonic and Hebrew versions. Pseudepigrapha. 1402. $30.

 

Charles, R.H. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. 1908. 347 pp.  English translation, introduction, commentary. Pseudepigrapha. 1403. $30.

 

Conybeare, F.C. The Apology and Acts of Apollonius and Other Monuments of Early Christianity. 1894. 360 pp. English translation, introduction, notes. Patristica. 1404. $30.

 

Conybeare, Frederick. Philo about the Contemplative Life. 1895. 419 pp.    Greek text, critical apparatus, commentary, introduction. 1405. $35.

 

Conybeare, F.C., et. al. The Story of Ahikar. 1913. 408 pp. Text in Greek, Syriac, Turkish and Armenian. English translation, introduction. Medieval patristica. 1406. $35.

 

Cook, Stanley. A Glossary of the Aramaic Inscriptions. 1898. 127 pp. 1407. $20.

 

Cook, Stanley. The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi. 1903. 325 pp. A detailed comparison. 1408. $30.

 

Cooke, G.A. A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions. 1903. 459 pp. Transcribed texts, English translation, critical commentary. 1409. $35.

 

Cooper, James; and Arthur John MacLean. The Testament of Our Lord. 1902. 269 pp. English translation, critical commentary. Patristica. 1410. $25.

 

Cowley, A. Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. 1923. 351 pp. Aramaic text, English translation, critical commentary, introduction, index. 1411. $30.

 

Crum, W.E.; and H.I. Bell. Wadi Sarga: Coptic and Greek Texts. 1922. 242 pp. Texts, English translation, introduction, notes. Patristica and Hellenistica. 1412. $25.

 

Cureton, William. Ancient Syriac Documents. 1864. 322 pp. Syriac text, English translation, notes. Patristica.     1413. $30.

 

Cureton, William. Corpus Ignatianum: A Complete Collection of the Ignatian Epistles. 1849. 455 pp. Syriac, Greek and Latin texts, English translation, introduction, commentary. Patristica. 1414. $35.

 

Cureton, William. History of the Martyrs in Palestine, by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea. 1861. 161 pp. Syriac text, English translation, introduction, notes. Patristica. 1415. $20.

 

Cureton, William. Spicilegium Syriacum. 1855. 168 pp. Syriac text, English translation. Patristica. 1416. $20.

 

Dalman, Gustaf. Jesus Christ in the Talmud, Midrash, Zohar and the Liturgy of the Synagogue. 1893. 157   pp. Texts, English translation, analysis. 1417. $20.

 

Daubney, William Herford. The Three Additions to Daniel. 1906. 276 pp. A study of the apocrypha. 1418. $25.

 

Davies, W.W. The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. 1905. 126 pp. A comparison. 1419. $20.

 

Davis, W. Hersey. Greek Papyri of the First Century. 1933. 114 pp. Of interest to N.T. studies. Greek text, English translation, notes. 1420. $20.

 

Deane, William. The Book of Wisdom. 1881. 224 large pp. Greek text, Latin Vulgate, KJV English, critical apparatus, introduction, notes. Apocrypha. 1421. $35.

 

Deane, William. Pseudepigrapha. 1891. 348 pp. Studies in eight texts. 1422. $30.

 

Drummond, James. Philo Judaeus; or, The Jewish-Alexandrian Philosophy in Its Development and Completion. 1888. 2 vols: 359, 355 pp. A major study of Philo. 1423. $60.

 

Dunkerley, Roderic. The Unwritten Gospel: Ana and Agrapha of Jesus. 1925. 207 pp. Translated and discussed. 1424. $20.

 

Eisler, Robert. The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist According to Flavius Josephus. 1931. 638 pp. The largest study of the disputed passages in Josephus, with a novel theory. See Jacks below. 1425. $45.

 

Funk, Franciscus Xavierius. Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum. 1905. 2 vols: 760, 252 pp. A major edition of the Teachings and Constitutions of the Apostles. Text, critical apparatus, introduction, essays, indices. Patristica. 1426. $70.

 

Gaster, Moses. The Asatir: The Samaritan Book of the Secrets of Moses. 1927. 415 pp. Text, English translation. With other documents. Pseudepigrapha. 1427. $35.

 

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop; and Agnes Smith Lewis. Horae Semiticae. 1903. 12 vols: c. 200 large pp. each. Biblical, patristic and pseudepigraphal texts in Syriac and Arabic, with English translations, introductions, notes. Includes the N.T. commentary of Ishodad of Merv. 1428. $195.

 

Giles, J.A. Heathen Records of Jewish Scripture History. 1856. 172 pp. Greek and Latin texts, English translation. 1429. $20.

 

Ginsburg, Christian D. The Essenes: Their History and Doctrines. [and] The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development and Literature. ND. 245 pp. Major studies of both. 1430. $25.

 

Gollancz, Hermann. Julian the Apostate. 1928. 264 pp. English translation of the Syriac. Patristica. 1431. $25.

 

Goodrick, A.T.S. The Book of Wisdom. 1913. 449 pp. A major commentary on Ecclesiasticus. Apocrypha. 1432. $35.

 

Griffinhoofe, C.G. The Unwritten Sayings of Christ. 1903. 140 pp. Translated and discussed. 1433. $20.

 

Grinfield, Edward. Scholia Hellenistica in Novum Testamentum. 1848. 2 vols: c. 500 pp. each. A huge collection of references for almost every verse of the N.T. drawn from Josephus, Philo, Apostolic Fathers and the LXX. 1434. $70.

 

Harden, J.M. The Ethiopic Didascalia. 1920. 227 pp. English translation, introduction, notes. Patristica. 1435. $25.

 

Harris, J. Rendel. The Apology of Aristides on Behalf of the Christians. 1893. 148 pp. Syriac and Greek texts, English translation, commentary. Patristica. 1436. $20.

 

Harris, J. Rendel. Fragments of the Commentary of Ephraim Syrus Upon the Diatessaron. 1895. 101 pp. Syriac text, English translation, notes. Patristica. 1437. $20.

 

Harris, J. Rendel. Fragments of Philo Judaeus. 1886. 133 large pp. Greek and Latin texts, introduction. 1438. $25.

 

Harris, J. Rendel. The Homeric Centones and the Acts of Pilate. 1898. 83 large pp. Comparison of two ancient documents. 1439. $20.

 

Harris, J. Rendel. The Rest of the Words of Baruch. 1889. 64 pp. Greek text, introduction. Pseudepigrapha. 1440. $20.

 

Harris, J. Rendel. The Teaching of the Apostles. 1887. 117 large pp. Facsimile and transcribed Greek text, commentary. The Didache. Patristica. 1441. $25.

 

Harris, J. Rendel; and Alphonse Mingana. The Odes and Psalms of Solomon.  1916. 2 vols: 220, 463 pp. Facsimiles,  Syriac text, English translation, commentary, concordance, essays. Pseudepigrapha. 1442. $45.

 

Hart, J.H.A. Ecclesiasticus: The Greek Text of Codex 248. 1909. 395 pp. With textual commentary, notes, essays. Apocrypha. 1443. $30.

 

Herford, R. Travers. Christianity in Talmud and Midrash. 1903. 449 pp.    The standard collection of references to Jesus and Christians in early post-Christian rabbinic writings. With extensive commentary. 1444. $35.

 

Herford, R. Travers. Pirke Aboth. 1925. 184 pp. Hebrew text, English translation, large commentary, introduction. The most important tractate of the Mishnah. 1445. $20.

 

Horner, George. Pistis Sophia. 1924. 253 pp. English translation of a major Gnostic treatise. Introduction. 1446. $25.

 

Horner, George. The Statutes of the Apostles or Canones Ecclesiastici. 1904. 519 pp. Ethiopic and Arabic texts, English translation, introduction, notes. Patristica. 1447. $40.

 

Huidekoper, Fredric. Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuiness of the Gospels. 1879. 238 pp. Extra-Biblical sources that verify and illustrate the Gospels. 1448. $25.

 

Issaverdens, Jacques. The Uncanonical Writings of the Old Testament. 1901. 706 pp. English translation of rare Armenian MSS in Venice. Some have original texts given. Pseudepigrapha. 1449. $45.

 

Jack, J.J. The Historic Christ. 1933. 284 pp. Refutes Eisler’s strange theory  regarding the references to Jesus in Josephus. 1450. $25.

 

Jackson, F.J. Foakes. Josephus and the Jews. 1930. 315 pp. 1451. $30.

 

James, Montague Rhodes. Apocrypha Anecdota. 1893. 2 vols in 1: 488 pp. Text and translation of various apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. 1452. $35.

 

James, Montague Rhodes. Latin Infancy Gospels. 1927. 165 pp. Latin and Irish texts, introduction. N.T. apocrypha.      1453. $20.

 

James, Montague Rhodes. The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament. 1920. 160 pp. Pseudepigrapha of which only the smallest fragments or patristic references exist. 1454. $20.

 

James, Montague Rhodes. The Testament of Abraham. 1892. 175 pp. Greek        text, critical apparatus, introduction, commentary. Pseudepigrapha. 1455. $20.

 

Jenkinson, E.J. The Unwritten Sayings of Jesus. 1925. 160 pp. Translated and discussed. 1456. $20.

 

Jones, John. Ecclesiastical Researches: or, Philo and Josephus Proved to Be Historians, Apologists of Christ, or His Followers, and of the Gospel. 1812. 594 pp. Claims they were Christians. 1457. $40.

 

Kennedy, H.A.A. Philo’s Contribution to Religion. 1991. 256 pp. 1458. $25.

 

King, C.W. The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Medieval. 1887. 502 pp. Drawn mainly from ancient inscriptions and coins. 1459. $40.

 

Krebsii, Io. Tobiae. Observationes in Novum Testamentum e Flavio Iosepho. 1755. 459 pp. A commentary on the N.T. using parallels from the writings of Josephus. Latin and Greek. 1460. $35.

 

Krupnik, Baruch; and A.M. Silbermann. A Dictionary of the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Targum. 1927. 2 vols: 468, 439 large pp. With quotations and definitions in English and German. 1461. $95.

 

Laurence, Richard. The Book of Enoch the Prophet. 1883. 228 pp. The first English translation. Introduction. Pseudepigrapha. 1462. $25.

 

Lewis, Agnes Smith; Margaret Dunlop Gibson; and Eberhard Nestle. Studia Sinaitica. 1894. 12 vols: c. 160 large pp. each. Biblical, patristic and pseudepigraphal texts from Mt. Sinai in Syriac, Arabic       and Greek with English translation. Introductions, notes. 1463. $175.

 

Lidzbarski, Mark. Ginza 1925. 619 pp. German translation of the major text of the Mandaean Gnostic cult. Introduction, notes, indices. 1464. $40.

 

Lightfoot, J.B. Essays on the Work Entitled Supernatural Religion. 1889. 324 pp. Patristic studies. 1465. $30.

 

Margolis, Max. A Manual of the Aramaic Language of the Babylonian Talmud. 1910. 200 pp. Grammar, paradigms, texts, glossary. 1466. $20.

 

Mead, G.R.S. The Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book. 1924. 137 pp. English translation. 1467. $20.

 

Meade, William. The Bible and the Classics. 1861. 559 pp. Scripture’s relation to Greek and Latin literature. 1468. $40.

 

Mercer, Samuel. Extra-Biblical Sources for Hebrew and Jewish History. 1913. 225 pp. English translations of ancient near eastern texts. 1469. $25.

 

Mercer, Samuel. The Tell El-Amarna Tablets. 1939. 2 vols: 944 pp. total. Transliterated text, English translation, introduction, notes. Documents from the Levant. 1470. $70.

 

Milligan, George. Selections from the Greek Papyri. 1910. 186 pp. Texts, English translation, notes. Those that bear on N.T. studies. 1471. $20.

 

Millington, Thomas. The Testimony of the Heathen to the Truths of Holy Writ. 1863. 679 pp. A large collection of parallels to Scripture from Greek and Latin classics. 1472. $45.

 

Mingana, Alphonse. Woodbrooke Studies. 1927. 7 vols: c. 300 pp. each. Patristic and pseudepigraphal manuscripts in facsimiles and transcribed texts with English translations. Notes, indices. 1473. $120.

 

Moore, Herbert. The Treatise of Novatian on the Trinity. 1919. 156 pp. English translation, introduction, notes. Patristica. 1474. $20.

 

Morfill, W.R. The Book of the Secrets       of Enoch. 1896. 147 pp. English    translation of 2 Enoch. Introduction, notes. Pseudepigrapha. 1475. $20.

 

Morgan, Caesar. An Investigation of    the Trinity of Plato and of Philo Judaeus. 1853. 180 pp. Johannine parallels. 1476. $20.

 

Murray, Edward. Enoch Restitutus. 1836. 324 pp. Traces the origin of the quotation from Enoch in Jude 14-15. 1477. $30.

 

Neubauer, Ad. The Book of Tobit. 1878. 135 pp. Aramaic and Itala texts, English translation, introduction. Apocrypha.    1478. $20.

 

Nicholson, Edward Byron. The Gospel According to the Hebrews. 1879.  178 pp. English translation of the known fragments. Introduction, commentary. Patristica. 1479. $20.

 

Noah, M.M. The Book of Jasher. 1840. 300 pp. Pseudepigraphal hoax in English translation that pretends to be mentioned in Joshua 10:13. 1480. $30.

 

Nock, A.D.; and A.J. Ferguson. Corpus Hermeticum. 1945. 4 vols: c. 250 pp. each. The standard critical edition of the Greek text of the Hermetica treatises. Introductions, notes in French. 1481. $95.

 

Northcote, J. Spencer. Epitaphs of the Catacombs. 1878. 204 pp. 1482. $20.

 

Odeberg, Hugo. 3 Enoch of the Hebrew Book of Enoch. 1928. 500 pp. Hebrew text, English translation, introduction, commentary. Pseudepigrapha. 1483. $35.

 

Pick, Bernhard. Jesus in the Talmud. 1913. 103 pp. Translation and comments on the main references. 1484. $20.

 

Pick, Bernhard. Paralipomena. 1908. 170 pp. Lost sayings of Christ. 1485. $20.

 

Platt, Thomas Pell. The Ethiopic Didascalia. 1834. 167 large pp. The Apostolic Constitutions in Ethiopic text, English translation, introduction. Patristica. 1486. $30.

 

Pranaitis, I.B. The Talmud Unmasked. 1892. 111 pp. Discusses the anti-Christian sections of the Talmud. 1487. $20.

 

Ragg, Lonsdale and Laura. The Gospel of Barnabas. 1907. 545 pp. Italian text, English translation, introduction, critical notes. The notorious medieval anti-Christian pseudepigrapha accepted as authentic by many Moslems but discredited by scholars. 1488