Antiquitopia

It is a few days old, but Philip Jenkins has an interesting informative  post  (definitely worth the read) on Protestants and "Apocrypha."

There have been several discussions of the project spearheaded by Hal Taussig called A New New Testament .  See the description here: It is time for a new New Testament.   Over the past century, numerous lost scriptures have been discovered, authenticated, translated, debated, celebrated. Many of these documents were as important to shaping early-Christian communities and beliefs as what we have come to call the New Testament; these were not the work of shunned sects or rebel apostles, not alternative histories or doctrines, but part of the vibrant conversations that sparked the rise of Christianity. Yet these scriptures are rarely read in contemporary churches; they are discussed nearly only by scholars or within a context only of   gnostic  gospels. Why should these books be set aside? Why should they continue to be lost to most of us? And don’t we have a great deal to gain by placing them back into contact with the twenty-seven books of the traditional New Tes...

I just received a copy of Bart Ehrman and Zlatko Plese's collection of apocryphal gospels that you can purchase here . I am looking forward to flipping through the book. April DeConick has written a short review here .