Apocryphal Writings Archives - Biblical Studies

Anna and the Blind Tobit, Rembrandt and Dou (1630)

Books of the Apocrypha – W O E Oesterley

ByRob September 8, 2021May 2, 2021

Today’s free book is W O E Oesterley’s Introduction to the Books of the Apocrypha. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. William Oscar Emil Oesterley [1866–1950], An Inroduction to the Books of the Apocrypha. London: SPCK, 1935, 1958. Hbk. pp.345. [Click here to visit…

An Early Analysis of the Gospel of Peter

ByRob September 21, 2020September 20, 2020

The remains of an eighth or ninth Century manuscript of the Gospel of Peter were rediscovered in Egypt in 1886. That would make this book, written in 1893, one of the earliest analyses of the text. My thanks to Book Aid for making this public domain title available for digitisation. James Rendell Harris [1853-1941], The…