The Apocryphal New Testament by M R James (11 results)

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0198261217.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0198261217.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.53.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.53.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. 1966 edition. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The object of the present volume is to give that compre- hensive view. It contains fresh versions of all the really important texts, and full summaries, with extracts, of those which do not need to be translated word for word. Further, it attempts to put the reader in possession of the results of the very fruitful researches of the last generation. In those thirty years a great mass of material has been added to the available stock, and, what is not less important, there has been a sifting of what is early from what is late, and an order and chronology of the writings, which is not likely to be seriously disturbed, has been settled. From the historical and the literary point of view, then, it is worth while to present the apocryphal literature of the New Testament afresh; but it is also worth while from the religious point of view. People may still be heard to say, 'After all, these Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, as you call them, are just as interesting as the old ones. It w.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.53.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1924 oxford editionon blue cloth.

Hardcover. Cloth, rubbed; head of spine nicked. Winifred M Temple name on e-p.

The dustjacket claims this volume is the "first book to supply the English reader with a comprehensive view of the apocryphal literature connected with the New Testament." Though English translations were made by William Wake and by Jeremiah Jones in the early eighteenth century, with other translations to follow, James' translations were the first scholarly translations of the twentieth century. Though most renowned as a writer of ghost stories, James was a substantial medieval scholar. He cataloged many of the manuscript libraries of the colleges at the University of Cambridge and published several significant scholarly works. This copy with the bookplate of Harold S. Horan on the front free-endpaper and his inkstamp to the rear free-endpaper. 8vo. Blue cloth, grey printed dustjacket. 7 x 4 3/4 in. xxxi, [xxxii], 594, [2] pp. Very good; dustjacket spine panel sunned with loss at head.