Recovering Jewish-Christian Sects and Gospels (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)

ABBREVIATIONS AND APPENDICES

Abbreviations

For ancient sources I have used the abbreviations as provided in Alexan-

der, Patrick H. et al. (ed.), ,The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient

Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies.(Peabody,Mass.:Hen-

drickson). In addition, I have used the following abbreviations:

GH ThreeGospelHypothesis(seeIntroduction)

ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers

BDB Brown, et al. 

DA Didascalia Apostolorum

GEb theGospel of the Ebionites

GHeb theGospel of the Hebrews

GNaz the “Gospel of the Nazarenes” (for quotation marks, see

Introduction)

GThom theGospel of Thomas

LkS Luke’s special tradition

MtS Matthew’s special tradition

NGH New Two Gospel Hypothesis (see Introduction)

NIV New International Version

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

RSV Revised Standard Version

Appendix : The New Two Gospe lHypothesis

Translations (if not indicated otherwise) according to A.F.J. Klijn,Jewish-

Christian Gospel Tradition. Leiden: Brill, .

Gospe lof the Hebrews

. The baptism of Jesus

a. [... but according to the Gospel which was written in the Hebrew
languageandreadbytheNazarenes:]

The whole fountain of the Holy Spirit came upon him.

[Further in the Gospel which we mentioned above we find that the
following is written:]