We have all heard of the modern rediscovery of ancient scriptures, and we all know the standard stereotypes of how they are found – think of the Dead Sea Scrolls, or the Nag Hammadi library. Although such spectacular finds are not common, rediscoveries on a smaller scale are in fact quite a regular fact of scholarship, and of religious life. Moreover, that has been true for several centuries, certainly dating back to the Renaissance.This quarter century is a fascinating period, the inflection point between Renaissance techno-Hermeticism and Enlightenment Cartesian-clockwork materialism.In my next several posts, I will be looking at some sensational discoveries that all belonged to a particular historical period, namely the first quarter or so of the seventeenth century, roughly between 1600 and 1625. ...
For lots of PaleoJudaica posts on the Infancy Gospel (Protevangelium) of James, see here and links (cf. here). For more on the Granada lead plates, see here (cf. here and here). On the Gospel of Barnabas, see here and links.
This post is a continuation of Professor Jenkins's Lost and Found Scriptures series. For earlier posts, see here and links. I am quite enjoying the series and look forward to the coming posts.
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