2.8 Lost Books of the New Testaments

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jews produced a vast number of religious books in the centuries before the birth of Jesus. They had no influence on later Judaism, but profoundly influenced Christianity. We call them parabiblical or pseudipigraphical. Their significance was not appreciated until the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.2	Episode 2.8, Lost Books of the New Testaments.
0:25.8	That's right, Testament in the plural.
0:30.1	In the last episode of the history in the Bible, I discussed how the religion of Judaism
0:35.9	was constructed by Ezra and Nehemiah after the return,
0:40.8	and finished up with a few words about the books of Esther, Judith, Obadiah and Jonah.
0:48.6	We have now finished the canon of the Old Testament, at least as described by Jews and Protestants.
0:56.2	I have a few bombshell guest stars who will appear in later episodes, but let's not spoil the
1:02.9	surprise. According to Jews, nothing of religious note happened after the Book of Malachi
1:09.6	until the writing of the great
1:11.8	law digest and commentary, the Mishnah, around 200 AD.
1:17.1	According to Christians, no worthy work was produced until Paul began writing his letters
1:23.5	around 50 AD.
1:26.5	But outside the official canons, Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism
1:32.3	acknowledged quite a lot of books as at least of interest.
1:36.3	Books attributed to Job, to Moses, to Abraham, to Enoch, to a multitude of biblical figures.
1:45.3	I have three collections of these books,
1:48.5	running to over 3,000 densely packed pages in English translation.
1:54.0	All these books were written some time in the thousand years
1:58.0	between the return from Babylon and the very late Roman period,
2:03.1	say 500 AD.
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