Animating Christian Apocrypha - DVD - BAS Class 2

Biblical Archaeology Society 

 The four gospels of the New Testament are only a small fraction of the early Christian writings detailing the life and teachings of Jesus known today.  In Animating Christian Apocrypha, Mark Goodacre, a world-renowned scholar of Christian Origins, explores the Gospel accounts omitted from the New Testament.  In these lectures Goodacre  examines their historicity and Implications for understanding Jesus. 

• The Proto-Gospel of James
• Infancy Gospel of Thomas
• Gospel of Thomas
• Gospel of Philip
• Gospel of Mary
• Gospel of Peter
• Secret Gospel of Mark
• Gospel of Jesus' Wife
• Fragmentary Gospels
• Gospel of Judas

MARK GOODACRE is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religion at Duke University.  Goodacre is an expert in the fields of Early Christian Gospels - both Synoptic and Apocryphal - and New Testament in Film and Fiction.