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Nice reply. To answer your last question, I am reading all the potential first century writings about Christianity, and the Early Writings website dates it to 100 AD or later, which is right at the end of the first century.

Could the Gospel of the Ebionites be a first century document? Encyclopedia Britannica says: The Ebionite movement may have arisen about the time of the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (ad 70). Its members evidently left Palestine to avoid persecution and settled in Transjordan (notabl...

The Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers are a set of prayers in Books 7-8 of the 4th century Apostolic Constitutions that Christians adapted from synagogue prayers. The Prayers start on p. 677 in Charlesworth's The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: https://books.google.com/books?id=RU77ekrD_vIC The Apostolic ...

Also known as the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, it is ascribed to Baruch ben Neriah, the 6th c. BC scribe of Jeremiah. This link has the Greek and Slavonic texts' versions: http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan/Shneider/apocr2010/3%20Baruch%20OTP.pdf (Question) Is 3 Baruch a Jewish work with later Christi...

Good input. The Gnostic "Hypostasis of the Archons", tentatively dated to the early 3rd century in Wikipedia, has the idea of things coming into being "after the pattern of all the things above": Now when Yaldabaoth saw him (Sabaoth) in this great splendor and at this height, he envied him; and the ...

Thanks, Bernard. One theory that I read was that the Martyrdom was the original, Jewish part, whereas the Ascension was added later. But I read another theory that sounds true to me that proposes that the Vision at the end was part of the original document, and the Martyrdom served to build up credi...

The Apostolic Constitutions and an Armenian Bible listed the Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah (heretofore "Ascension of Isaiah") as apocryphal, and the existence of manuscripts in numerous translations suggest that it once had widespread use. The text for the Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah can b...

I came across this today about the 4th-5th c. Vision of Theophilus, and I found the quote relevant, so I decided to share it. This is a modern summary of its contents: The next story takes place in Qenis (pp. 24–26), where the family encounter a friend of Joseph from Judea whose possessed son is exo...

The Odes of Solomon are considered to be originally written in Greek or Syriac, and are quoted by Lactantius in the early 4th century. They were found in the Bodmer papyri (200 - 7th c. AD) near the monastery of St. Pachomias. The 6th c. "Synopsis Sacrae Scripture" says that they are read to catechu...

"He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street." (Isaiah 42:2) Certainly, anyone who talked outside would be causing their voice to be heard in the streets, so that is not what it is talking about. It is talking about a style of preaching loud, calling out like a proph...