TY - BOOK AU - Hone,William AU - Jones,Jeremiah AU - Wake,William TI - The lost books of the Bible: being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their companions, not included by its compilers, in the Authorized New Testament, and the recently discovered Syriac mss. of Pilate's letters to Tiberius, etc. SN - 0517277956 AV - BS2832 .A2 1979 U1 - 229.9 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Bell Pub. Co. KW - Apocryphal books (New Testament) N1 - Reprint of the 1926 ed. published by World Pub. Co., Cleveland; William Hone's collection first published in 1820 under title "The Apocryphal New Testament", incorporating the translations of Jeremiah Jones for the Apocryphal books and of Archbishop Wake for the Apostolic Fathers. cf. M. R. James. The Apocryphal New Testament, p. xv N2 - Suppressed by the early church fathers who compiled the Bible, these apocryphal books have been shrouded in silence for centuries. Here are the Apostles' Creed, the girlhood and betrothal of Mary, the childhood of Jesus-told in all their warmth, intimacy and humanity. Translated from the Original Tongues, with 32 illustrations from Ancient Paintings and Missals UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/79004043.html ER -