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Subject: Lost books of the bible
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9362 7.09.11 - 11:26am
Just wondering how many there are,seems to be a fair bit of debate about it on the internet.book of susanna was one i read about and there seem to be others * +

smohamed 7.09.11 - 11:30am
think it goes into the hundreds or thousands... * +

smohamed 7.09.11 - 11:31am
the story re: i think constantine is interesting though....and how the existing setup came into being.... * +

9362 7.09.11 - 11:42am
Possibly smo,would be an interesting to hear about them from people like nick and drakess etc * +

3mel 7.09.11 - 12:20pm
its the dead sea scrolls and the gnostic gospels i think, but they aren't books of the bible but books not wanted by the compilers of the bible, for reasons unknown . . . * +

smohamed 7.09.11 - 12:45pm
i agree digits * +

levitt 7.09.11 - 12:53pm
Not really 'lost'. One has to understand early struggles among christian sects and how the victorious ones adopted and enforced the canon which became our bible. Different groups held to different books but some few books were commonly accepted. Our canon is derived mainly from marcion and Iraneus' allies. Of course those rejected by the 'orthodoxy' were criminalised and possession of them * +

levitt 7.09.11 - 12:54pm
became capital offence. Any copy of such banned scripture found was destroyed and the possessor executed. * +

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