The lost book of the Bible

The Lost Books of the
Bible 
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The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten
Books of Eden (1926) is a collection of 17th-
century and 18th-century English translations
of some Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and
New Testament Apocrypha, some of which
were assembled in the 1820s, and then
republished with the current title in 1926.
History of the translations
Rutherford Hayes Platt, in the preface to his
1963 reprint of The Lost Books of the Bible and
the Forgotten Books of Eden states:
"First issued in 1926, this is the most
popular collection of apocryphal and
pseudepigraphal literature ever published."
The translations were first published, under
this title, by an unknown editor in The Lost
Books of the Bible Cleveland 1926, but the
translations had previously been published
many times. The Lost Books of the Bible and
the Forgotten Books of Eden is also published
by A&B publishers group, with a black and
white cover, and with black people as
protagonists. This edition has an introduction
to The Lost Books of the Bible by Dr. Frank
Cane and is prefaced by R.H.P., Jr.(New York,
January 1, 1926.) Also, at the front page of
The Lost Book of the Bible, Dr. Talmage gives
a commentary on this work.
The book is, essentially, a combined reprint of
earlier works. The first half, Lost Books of the
Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book
published by William Hone in 1820, titled The
Apocryphal New Testament , itself a reprint of a
translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in
1693 by William Wake , who later became the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of
medieval embellishments on the New
Testament, from a book published in 1736 by
Jeremiah Jones (1693-1724). It must be
conceded that, in the three centuries since
these were originally published, a great deal
more is known about the Apostolic Fathers
(including a good deal of the original text that
was not available in 1693) and New
Testament apocrypha.
The second half of the book, The Forgotten
Books of Eden, includes a translation originally
published in 1882 of the "First and Second
Books of Adam and Eve", translated first from
ancient Ethiopic to German by Ernest Trumpp
and then into English by Soloman Cesar
Malan, and a number of items of Old
Testament pseudepigrapha, such as reprinted
in the second volume of R.H. Charles's
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old
Testament (Oxford, 1913).
For more modern translations see the
standard modern editions:
J. H. Charlesworth , ed. Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha 2 Vols.
W. Schneemelcher , ed. New Testament
Apocrypha 2 Vols.
M. R. James , The Apocryphal New
Testament (Oxford, 1924)
Reprint editions
The Lost Books of the Bible and the
Forgotten Books of Eden (A & B Book Dist Inc,
March 1994, ISBN 1-881316-63-7 )
The Lost Books of the Bible (Testament,
1998, ISBN 0-517-27795-6 )
The Forgotten Books of Eden (Alpha House,
1927, ISBN 0-517-30886-X , ISBN
1-56459-636-2 , ISBN 0-529-03385-2 ).
Contents of The Lost Books of
the Bible
{♦ = found in The Apostolic Fathers }
The Protevangelion
The Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus
King of Edessa
The Gospel of Nicodemus ( Acts of Pilate )
The Apostles' Creed (throughout history)
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
Laodiceans
The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca,
with Seneca's to Paul
The Acts of Paul and Thecla
♦ The Epistles of Clement (The First and
Second Epistles of Clement to the
Corinthians)
♦ The Epistle of Barnabas
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to the
Magnesians
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to the
Philadelphians
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to the
Smyrneans
♦ The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp
♦ The Shepherd of Hermas (Visions,
Commands, and Similitudes)
Letter of Herod To Pilate the Governor
Letter of Pilate to Herod
The Lost Gospel of Peter
♦ The Epistle of Polycarp to the
Philippians