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'''Neoapocrypha''', commonly called '''Modern apocrypha''' or '''New apocrypha''' … ''later (introduction)''

==Characteristics and contents==
''later''; incl. an introductory overview of the cultural environment (Age of Enlightenment, Nationalism, Zionism, Failure of the Life-of-Jesus-research, Völkisch movement, blood and soil, neo-mysticism, also as a response to industrialization and secularization etc.); anti-Judaist tendencies of neoapocrypha

===Mysticism===
esoterics, obscurantism, secret knowledge

===Alternative biographies of Jesus===
Jesus of Indian, Arian, Persian, Gallic, Germanic, Arabic origin etc.; journeys to Egypt, India, Tibet, Japan etc. and their origin (Apollonios etc.); survival after crucifixion (incl. early authors like Bahrdt & Schleiermacher); never crucified; twin brother of Jesus; married Jesus

====The Essene connection and Qumran====

===Theological deviations===
e.g. Jesus' studies and the theological consequences, reincarnation etc.

==Propagation, defense and reception==
''later''

===Alleged obscurantism of the early Church===
incl. Morley Steynor ''et al.''

===The method of "lost sources"===

===Copycats — a short history of transmission===
''incl. a stemma''

===Aftermath — religions, sects and cults===
e.g. LDS Church, Unification Church etc.

===Effects on modern popular culture===
New Age Christ, Hare Krishna (Krishna = Christus), feminist and vegetarian Christology, Order of the Nazarenes, Buddhist practices by Christians and Christian priests, ''ad-hoc''-Jesuses in modern culture (Jesus was a woman, a homosexual, an African etc.), ''The Last Temptation of Christ'', ''The DaVinci Code'', neo-mysticism & parapsychology etc.

==Early precursors and related writings==
''later''
===The original Christian apocrypha===
overview only; incl. similar concepts to neoapocrypha from antiquity like Gnostic esoteric Christian sects; Manichaeism

===Talmudic tradition on Jesus===
Jewish polemics and mockery; Jesus, son of a Roman soldier; Pantheras < > ''parthenos''; Toledoth Jeschu etc.

===Mediaeval writings===
''Himmelsbriefe'' ("Heaven's letters"; known since the 6th century); ''Acta Silvestri'' and the Donation of Constantine; Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals; ''Decretum Gratiani''; ''Liber Pontificalis''

===''Himmlische Geheimnisse'' (early 18th century)===
"Heavenly Secrets"; Emmanuel Swedenborg

===''Jesus mitten unter den Seinen'' (late 18th century)===
"Jesus Amidst His Own"; Anna Katharina Emmerick; recorded by Clemens Brentano

==Gospels allegedly based on written records==
''later''

===Gospel of Barnabas (16th century)===
'''''not''' the apocryphal Epistle of Barnabas''

===''The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth'' (ca. 1820)===
Thomas Jefferson; alternative title: ''Jefferson Bible''

===Book of Mormon (1830)===
Joseph Smith Jr.

===Urevangelium der Essäer (1867)===
"Ur-Gospel of the Essenes"; Friedrich Clemens Gierke (as "Friedrich Clemens"); also called ''Das fünfte Evangelium'' ("The Fifth Gospel"); 2nd edition published as ''Jesus der Nazarener — Des Weisesten der Weisen Leben, Lehre und natürliches Ende. Der Wirklichkeit nacherzählt und dem deutschen Volke gewidmet'' (engl.: "Jesus the Nazarene — Life, Teachings and Natural Death of the Wisest of the Wise. Reality Retold and Dedicated to the German People").

===L'Evangelie De l'Enfance De Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ Selon St. Pierre (1904)===
"The Gospel of the Childhood of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Peter"; Catulle Mendès (Latin Childhood Gospel)

===''The Crucifixion of Jesus, by an Eyewitness'' (1919)===
Elsie Louise Morris; originally German (late 18th century), followed by a Swedish edition (1880)

===Gospel of Josephus (1927)===
Luigi Moccia

===''Das Friedensevangelium der Essener'' (1937/1974)===
"The Essene Gospel of Peace"; Edmond Bordeaux Székely; originally called ''Das Friedensevangelium des Jesus Christus (durch den Jünger Johannes)'' (1937); published in English as "The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ by the Disciple John" (1937) as an excerpt of "The True (Unknown) Gospel of John on the Miraculous Healing of the Son of Man and on All Secret Things of Heavens and of Earth" (1937); re-issued in Germany in 1972 together with the Ouseley's "Gospel of the Perfect Life" as ''Heliand'' with the subtitle ''Die Gesundheitslehren einer altslawischen und einer aramäischen Evangelienhandschrift in der Bibliothek des Vatikans'' (engl.: "The Health Teachings of an Old-Slavonic and an Aramaic Gospel Manuscript in the Library of the Vatican"). An English two-part sequel was published in 1974, finally including the Essene-reference: ''The Gospel of the Essenes''. In the US all three volumes have been published under the title ''The Essene Gospel of Peace''. A supplementary report called ''The Discovery of the Essene Gospel of Peace'' was published in 1977.

===Secret Gospel of Mark (1973)===
Morton Smith / incl. pros & cons (apocryphal vs. neoapocryphal interpretations)

===Evangelium des Judas Ischarioth (1975)===
"Gospel of Judas Iscariot"; published by Eduard "Billy" Meier in 1975 under the title ''Talmud Immanuel''; '''''not''' the apocryphal "Gospel of Judas" from antiquity''

==Allegedly revealed and received gospels==
''later''

===''The New Revelation'': Gospels and writings by Jakob Lorber===
[[Image:JakobLorber_Handwriting_GospelOfJacob.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Gospel of Jacob''']]''later''

====Quellenevangelium (1840-41)====
"Source Gospel", a.k.a. ''Pathiel'' or ''Die große Zeit der Zeiten'' ("The Great Time of the Times")

====Evangelium der Berge (1842)====
"Gospel of the Mountains", a.k.a. ''Großglockner''; part of the "Gospels of Nature"

====Evangelium des Jakobus (1843/44-1952)====
"Gospel of Jacob — newly received"; a.k.a. "Die Jugend Jesu'' ("The Adolescence of Jesus")

====''Drei Tage im Tempel'' (1859/60)====
("Three Days in the Temple")

====Das große Evangelium Johannis (1851-64)====
"The Great Gospel of John"

====Other related writings by Jakob Lorber====
1. ''Die Haushaltung Gottes'' ("God's Housekeeping), 1840-44; 2. ''Himmelsgaben'' ("Gifts from Heaven"), 1840-64; 3. Writings on the soul, the afterlife etc.

===L'Évangile de la Vie Parfaite (1881)===
"Gospel of the Perfect Life"; Gédéon Gaspard Richard Ouseley; a.k.a. ''L'Évangile des Douze'' ("Gospel of the Holy Twelve"); '''''not''' the lost "Gospel of the Twelve" from antiquity''

===Das Fünfte Evangelium (1904-1908)===
"The Fifth Gospel"; Rudolf Steiner / allegedly from the metaphysical ''Akashic Records''; part of the publication ''Aus der Akasha-Chronic'' ("From the Akashic Records")

===The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age (1908)===
Levi H. Dowling / allegedly from the metaphysical ''Akashic Records''

===Evangelium des Jakobus (1920-24/1982)===
"Gospel of Jacob"; compiled by the "Fraternity Silvani"; title later changed to ''Botschaft des Jakobus'' ("Message of Jacob") in 1982

===Wolli Kangron — The Divine Principles (1936)===
Sun Myung Moon; complete textbook finished in 1946 

===Das Fünfte Evangelium (1947-56)===
"The Fifth Gospel"; Hans Naber; incl. connections to the Shroud of Turin

===L'Évangile Donné à Arès (1974)===
"Gospel of Arès"; Michel Potay; commonly seen as the most reputable neoapocryphal writing; followed by ''Le Livre'' (1977); both published in 1984 as ''L'Évangile'' ("The Gospel")

===''A Course in Miracles'' (1976)===
Helen Schucman & William Thetford

===A und Ω — Das Evangelium Jesu nach Gabriele Wittek (1975-77)===
"A and Ω — The Gospel of Jesus according to Gabriele Wittek"; Gabriele Wittek

==Texts on the trial of Jesus==
''later''

===Alleged court records (16th century)===
1. ''Death Penalty of Jesus'' (allegedly from a copper plate in Aquila); 2. ''Sanhedrin Transcript''; 3. later editions and revisions

===Essäer-Brief (1849)===
"Epistle to the Essenes"; P.F.H. Klencke; later incorporated into the "Ur-Gospel of the Essenes"

===''A Correct Transcript of Pilate's Court'' (1879)===
Rev. W.D. Mahan; re-issued in 1880 as ''The Acta Pilati'' with comments by Rev. Georges Sluter; '''''not''' the apocryphal '''Acta Pilati''' (from the Gospel of Nicodemus)''

===''The Archko Volume'' (1887)===
W.D. Mahan

===The Confessions of Pontius Pilate (1893)===
B. Shehadi

==Supplements to the New Testament==
''later''

===The Epistle of Lentulus (13th century)===

==="Sequels" to the Acts of the Apostles===
''later''

====Acts: Chapter 29 (1871)====
Geo. J. Stevenson

====The Second Book of Acts (1904)====
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie

===''La Vie Inconnue de Jésus-Christ'' (1894)===
"The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ"; Nicolai Aleksandrovich Notovich; first mention of Jesus' voyage to India

===''The Messiah in India'' (1899)===
Ghulam Ahmad of the Ahmadiyya mission; incl. later variations, e.g. an Afghan tribe as Jesus' offspring, or the family of the keeper of the Yuz-Asaf grave in Srinagar (Kashmir) as Jesus' offspring

===Benanbrief (1910)===
"The Epistle of Benan" ''or'' "The Letter of Benan"; von der Planitz / Baron von Rabenau

===Letter of Jesus Christ (1917)===
''Chicago Evening Post''

===''A Letter of our Lord Jesus Christ, Found on the Grave of the Mother of God'' (early 20th century)===
Michael Saliveros

===Epistle of Kallikrates (1928)===
''Atlantic Monthly''

===''Letters of Pontius Pilate'' (1928)===
W. P. Crozier; letters from Pilate to Seneca

===''Letters from Pontius Pilate's Wife'' (1929)===
Catherine van Dyke

===''The Mystical Life of Jesus'' (1929)===
H. Spencer Lewis of the ''Antiquus Mysticus Ordo Rosae Crucis'' ("AMORC")

===''The Secret Doctrines of Jesus'' (1937)===
H. Spencer Lewis

===''Jesât Nassar genannt Jesus Christus'' (1965)===
"Jehoshua the Nazir"; Mariell Wehrli-Frey; allegedly based on the 19th-century work ''Yehoshua'' by Otto Hanisch (pseudonym: "Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanish"); the Jesus of the neo-zoroastrian sect "Mazdaznan"

===''Jesus Scroll'' (1973)===
Donovan Joyce

==Semi-neoapocryphal publications==
''later''

===''Natürliche Geschichte des großen Propheten von Nazareth'' (1800-02)===
"Native History of the Great Prophet of Nazareth"; Karl Heinrich Venturini; released in 4 volumes

===''Erlösung von Jesu Christo'' (1931)===
"Deliverance from Jesus Christ"; Mathilde Ludendorff (as "Mathilde von Kemnitz")

===German National Socialism===
e.g. ''Geschichte der katholischen Staatsidee'' by Heinrich Wolf (1933-36); "History of the Catholic State-Concept"; incl. maybe mythological tangents ("Spear of Destiny" etc.)

===''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982)===
Michael Baigent / Richard Leigh / Henry Lincoln

===''Starb Jesus in Kaschmir? Das Geheimnis seines Lebens und Wirkens in Indien''===
"Did Jesus Die in Kashmir? The Secret of His Life and Deeds in India"; Siegfried Obermeier; notable because the author claims the existence of a 1000-year old Muslim historical apocryphon ''Ikmal-ud-Din'', which is said to report the Christ's death in Kashmir.

===''Conspiracy in Jerusalem — The Hidden Origins of Jesus'' (1988)===
Kamal S. Salibi; later re-issued as ''Who was Jesus? Conspiracy in Jerusalem''

===The Dead Sea scrolls and 1QpHab===
''later''

====''The Dead Sea Scroll Deception'' (1991)====
Michael Baigent / Richard Leigh

====''The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered'' (1992)====
Robert H. Eisenman / Michael Wise

===''Caesar's Messiah — The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus'' (2005)===
Joseph Atwill

==Semi-neoapocryphal hermeneutics==
''later''

===Dispensationalism (1820s)===
John Nelson Darby

===Rapture (1827)===
early forms (incl. Emmanuel Lacunza) / John Darby / Margaret MacDonald

===God's kingdom (1983)===
Graeme Goldsworthy and other theories

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