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What are the Apocrypha, Gnostic Gospels, Dead Sea Scrolls?
- Craig A. Evans, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels
(InterVarsity Press, 2008). - Craig A. Evans, Holman QuickSource Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Holman
Reference, 2010). - Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paulist Press, 2009).
- Becky Garrison, “Purpose Driven Heresy,” a book review: http://
killingthebuddha.com/ktblog/purpose-driven-heresy/. - Wayne Jackson, “The Apocrypha: Inspired of God?” Christian Courier,
September 21, 1999: http://www.christiancourier.com. - Alister McGrath, Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth (HarperOne,
2009). - Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (Random House, 2004).
- Wesley Center Online: http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/
noncanon/index.htm. - N. T. Wright, Judas and the Gospel of Jesus: Have We Missed the Truth about
Christianity? (Baker Books, 2006).
Suggested Questions for Further Discussion/Thought
- How do we defi ne heresy? What makes a work heretical?
- How important is it that the early church fathers—with some
exceptions—rejected the books of the Apocrypha and the gnostic
writings? - Do you believe Christians should read the Apocrypha or the gnostic
gospels? Why or why not?