Have you read The missing gospels by Darrel L. Bock? comments please?

Answer 1

I read about a third and stopped. Dr. Bock is a competent writer but it's very old ground that's been plowed over for two hundred years and he's added absolutely nothing new with one more traditionalist book for the laity.

I think you can pretty much sum up the psuedepigrapha with one admittedly subjective distinction: the non-canonical material is even sillier than the material that made it in, and it doesn't take more than a long magazine article to explain what it is and why it's not canonicial.

Answer 2

Yes. Very well done...and, despite his position as a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary - he did a downright "catholic" job in his research. ;-)

Very orthodox...he uses the same kind of reasoning and text materials that I do when I teach on the "Gnostic Gospels"

His DaVinci Code stuff is pretty good, too.

Below is a recording of a good lecture by Darrell Bock on the DaVinci Code...worth a listen!

Answer 3

No, but I have heard of other gospels. Consider this. The gospels in the bible were written by people that were around Jesus and his disciples and were written shortly after his death and resurrection. They are a compilation of eyewitness accounts. The other gospels, the ones not allowed in the bible, were written hundreds of years later. That is why they were not allowed. Their accuracy was in question and leaders foresaw the problem of false teaching based on these false gospels.