Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Bible

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Nag Hammadi Texts
(3rd-4th centuries CE)

A text from Nag Hammadi

Just the Facts:

Name: Nag Hammadi Texts
Date: 3rd-4th centuries CE
Place: Egypt
Language: Coptic
What they are: Middle Eastern collection of Gnostic texts (includes the Gospel of Thomas)

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New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
(c. 100-300)

Jesus is betrayed by a kiss from Judas,
the purported author of the pseudepigraphal
book The Gospel of Judas

Just the Facts:

Name: New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Dates: c. 100-300
Place: Middle East
Language: Greek, Coptic, Aramaic, etc.
What they are: Middle Eastern extra-Biblical books; accounts of Jesus and the early Church not included in the Bible; some were in fact "shortlisted" when the Canon was fixed.
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

The Holy Bible (New Testament)
(c. 50-150)

Paul at work. He may have written up to 13 books
of the New Testament, about half of the total of 27.

Just the Facts:

Name: The Holy Bible, New Testament
Also known as: "The Christian Scriptures"
Dates: c. 50-150
Place: Palestine
Language: Greek, Aramaic
What it is: Middle Eastern collection of 27 books; holy to Christianity and (less so) Islam
Included in lists (What's This?): 10YP; HC; Bloom; GC

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
(c. 80)

Detail of Rubens's Martyrdom of St. Thomas,
alleged but unlikely author of this "gospel"

Just the Facts:

Name: The Gospel of Thomas
Date: around 80 CE
Language: Coptic
What it is: Middle Eastern apocryphal New Testament book made up of sayings of Jesus, some with a decidedly Gnostic flavor

Jerome, Church Father
(c. 347-420)

Just the Facts:

Name: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus
Known as: Jerome
Birth: Unknown Date, 347, Štrigova, Croatia
Death: September 30, 420, Bethlehem
Nationality: Roman
Language: Latin
Who he was: Roman theologian, historian and Church Father; Gospel commentaries, Vulgate Bible

Ambrose of Milan, Roman Bishop
(c. 340-397)

Just the Facts:

Name: Aurelius Ambrosius
Known as: Ambrose of Milan
Birth: Unknown Date, c. 340, Trier, Germany
Death: April 4, 397, Milan, Italy
Language: Latin
Who he was: Roman Bishop (of Milan) and Church Father; Biblical commentaries, hymns, and ethical works

Philo of Alexandria, Hellenistic Jewish Philosopher
(c. 25 BCE-c. 50 CE)

Just the Facts:

Name: Philo of Alexandria
Also known as: Philo Judaeus
Dates: c. 25 BCE-c. 50 CE
Place: Alexandria, Egypt
Language: Latin; Greek? Hebrew?
Who he was: Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who wrote numerous allegorical commentaries on the "Old Testament"

The Biblical Apocrypha
(c. 200 BCE?)

"Susanna and the Elders," an addition to Daniel
by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari

Just the Facts:

Name: Biblical Apocrypha
Date: c. 200 BCE?
Languages: Hebrew, Greek
What it is: so-called "intertestamental literature" from the Middle East; books included in the Catholic Bible, but not the Protestant one
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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