Apocrypha Plus
Seventy-seven writings the early church read, copied and argued over — and then set aside.
The deuterocanonical books, the wider apocrypha, the Book of Enoch, the pseudepigrapha, the gospels and letters that circulated under apostolic names, and the writings of the generation after the apostles. All of it in one volume, in one consistent modern American English.
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Apocrypha
Plus
the books kept outside the canon
Why this edition
Most collections of this material give you one slice of it. A volume of apocrypha stops at fourteen titles. A volume of the Apostolic Fathers stops at the Fathers. This one puts the whole shelf between two covers.
And it reads as one book. Five public-domain sources spanning three centuries have been brought to a single modern American standard — spelling, pronouns, verb forms and the older constructions all made present-day, with every change written down and open to inspection.
One consistent English
Eight hundred documented corrections, so you never cross from 1926 prose into 1870 prose mid-volume without warning.
Made to be read
Two columns, footnotes at the foot of the column where they belong, a generous binding margin, and a page that opens flat enough to use.
Introductions that orient you
Twenty-two of the harder books open with a plain-language page telling you who these people were and what you are walking into.
The canon accounted for
A summary of each of the sixty-six books of the common canon closes the volume, cross-referenced to the works printed here.