Reconstructions of early Christian documents. Vol. I -- A primitive memoir of Christ -- M [Streeter's source of Matthew]

VG orig. blue cloth in torn azure dj. Foxing to end leaves only. 454p.; 22cm. [Vol.II on central place of Hegesippus: not publ.] `Josephus is the alternative form of the name Hegesippus'(p.216) [title continues] -- The recensions of S. Mark -- Markan Acts of S.Peter -- Markan Acts of S. Barnabas -- The papers used in S. John -- The Preaching of Peter -- The steps of James -- The Leucian Acts of Paul and the Gospel of Thomas -- The Leucian Acts of Peter and the Gospel of the Twelve -- The Ebionite romance -- A history of the church of Jerusalem -- Hegesippus. -/- Contents: Documents and abbreviations -- I Introduction -- II The conclusion, sources and recensions of S. Mark's Gospel -- III Some Docetic narratives -- IV Some notes on apocalyptic -- V The Ethiopic narratives of S. Peter and S. Paul -- VI The chronology of the first septennium -- VII The Ebionite romance and the traditional date of the foundation of the church of Rome -- VIII The apostolic council. The journeys of Judas and Simon. The Neronian persecution -- IX The journeys of Peter to Syria and of John and Paul to Iconium, Ephesus and Rome -- X Various studies -- XI Some gospel problems. -/- `5. The following canons of apocryphal criticism will be assumed [only the italicised sections included here]. 1. No apocryphist whose work either survives or underlies any existing document was capable of inventing a statement purporting to be historical which would possess any vraisemblance for a modern scholar. 2. The fundamental depravations of the primary apocryphal Acts, the Preaching of Peter, were due to doctrinal motives which can be determined. 3. The secondary apocryphists hardly ever invent; they quarry, pervert and retessellate. 4. The interrelations of the extant apocrypha are the relations of the sources of Hegesippus.' (p. 21f.). Binding is Hardcover.…