An introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Lapham, Fred</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">6:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">London</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>T & T Clark International</publisher> <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>193tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>This book is a readable and analytical survey of those important but little-known Christian documents of the second and third centuries which are collectively referred to as the New Testament Apocrypha, and is intended to serve both as an introductory guide for interested clergy and laity, but also as a useful reference for those pursuing higher research. Questions of the manufacture of the codices, the transmission of the texts, the discovery of the lost and hidden books, and of the classification of the documents are considered, and the books are placed and critically examined in their geographical and social setting.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Fred Lapham</note> <subject> <topic>Apocryphal books (New Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">229.92061</classification> <classification authority="ddc">F852-L31</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0826469795</identifier> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">1</recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2021-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070404.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>