My current work on icons and iconoclasm has reacquainted me with an old friend, namely the Constantinople patriarch Nikephoros (died 829), who played in a critical role in those ninth century controversies. At the time, he was beyond question the world’s most influential Christian leader, presiding over the greatest church. But Nikephoros is also associated with a document that is of great interest to anyone concerned with Christianity as a whole, and not just that particular historical controversy. That document is a wonderful source on two vital alternative gospels.For more on the Stichometry of Nikephoros (Nicephorus), see my original Lost Books post here. The Stichometry includes some lost or noncanonical Old Testament pseudepigrapha as well as lost or noncanonical gospels.[...]
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