The Lost Religion of Jesus, A Collection of Resources

 

The Lost Religion of Jesus, A Collection of Resources 

Christians have inherited a rather anachronistic interpretation of Christianity based on viewing the tradition solely through the "lens" of Paul. It is said or believed by some that Paul became a convert maybe between 34 and 36 A.D., roughly 4 to 7 years after the crucifixion of Jesus. The full canonical corpus of Paul's letters seems to burst upon the scene sometime well into the Second Century A.D., but certain letters are assigned by some dates of composition in the mid 50's and 60's of the First Century. It should be obvious that the Jesus movement doesn't begin with Paul. Paul arrives after the time of Jesus and the establishment of his spiritual successors, the first apostles, and that Jesus along with his disciples never had a "Pauline theology". This begs the question, what is salvation, the spiritual practice, and ethical code to be followed according to Jesus and his actual disciples? This original Jesus movement, sometimes called the Hebrew Christians, Ebionites, Nazoraeans, and by other terms, is the 'Christianity Before Paul'. Have always been quite curious about this Jesus Movement so marginalized in the canonical New Testament and seemingly edited out of the timeline.

Reconstructing an Ebionite or Nazorean Collection of Scriptures; Also What We Can Learn About Their History

Reconstructed Q Gospel found in, The Complete Gospels, by Robert J. Miller: 

https://archive.org/details/complete-gospels-ed.-robert-j.-miller/page/253/mode/2up

The Q Thomas Reader - The best and most readable one-volume introduction available to the Sayings Gospel Q and the Gospel of Thomas-the very earliest collections of the sayings and parables of Jesus: 

https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Reader-English-Coptic/dp/0944344119

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780944344118

Gospel of the Ebionites: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelebionites-panarion.html

Gospel of the Hebrews:  

        https://othergospels.com/hebrews

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelhebrews-throck.html

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospelhebrews.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/nazoreans-ogg.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelnazoreans.html

Surviving Quotes from the Jewish-Christian Gospels: Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of the Hebrews, and Gospel of the Nazoraeans: https://web.archive.org/web/20210223222109/http://www.textexcavation.com/jewishgospels.html

Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew), George Howard: 

https://archive.org/details/Hebrew.Gospel.of.MatthewEvenBohanIbn.ShaprutHoward.1987/mode/1up

Another Copy:

https://archive.org/details/gospelofmatthewa0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up

Early Christian Psalms: The Book of the Odes (a.k.a. The Odes of "Solomon"): 

https://othergospels.com/odes

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/odes.html

The Didache [earliest sections: 1, 2, and 3]: 

https://othergospels.com/didache

Letter of James: 

https://othergospels.com/bible/james

Letter of Jude: 

https://othergospels.com/bible/jude

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Vast Treasure-Trove of the Clementine Literature

Epistle (Letter) of Peter to James:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Peter-to-James.htm

Epistle (Letter) of Clement to James:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Clement-to-James.htm

Also See: 

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/080800.htm

Kerygmata Petrou (Preachings of Peter Reconstructed):

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/kerygmatapetrou.html

The Ascents of James: History and Theology of a Jewish-Christian Community, by Robert E. Van Voorst:  

https://archive.org/details/ascentsofjameshi0000vanv/mode/2up

The Clementine Homilies and The Clementine Recognitions (Ebionite Book of Acts)

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Recognitions of Clement, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts: 

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Recognitions/Recognitions-TOC.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Clementine Homilies, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Homilies-TOC.htm

The Clementine Homilies (English translation) Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. XVII, T & T Clark, 1852: 

https://archive.org/details/clementinehomil00donagoog/page/n8/mode/2up?view=theater

History

I do agree with the scholar Robert Eisenman that finding the historic James the Just (brother and spiritual successor of Jesus) is the most logical way to locate a historic Jesus. 

The Research of Robert Eisenman

Robert Eisenman @ Amazon: “James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls”; also, “Dead Sea Scrolls & The First Christians”; and, “James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher”: 

https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Eisenman/e/B000APV2U2

James The Brother Of Jesus And The Dead Sea Scrolls, by Robert Eisenman: 

https://archive.org/details/JamesTheBrotherOfJesusAndTheDeadSeaScrollsI/page/n14/mode/1up

The Research of Keith Akers

I highly recommend two books by Keith Akers on the original Jesus Movement (Christianity-Before-Paul), the Ebionites: "Disciples": 

https://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Jewish-Christianity-Shaped-Shattered-ebook/dp/B00J48GAJE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=keith+akers&qid=1586786123&sr=8-1

And by Keith Akers..."The Lost Religion of Jesus": 

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Religion-Jesus-Christianity-Non-Violence-ebook/dp/B003KTNBMM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1586786168&refinements=p_27%3AKeith+Akers&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Keith+Akers

Read for free online, The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, by Keith Akers: 

https://archive.org/details/lostreligionofje0000aker/mode/2up

The Research of James Tabor

Forgotten Christians: Who Were The Ebionites?

https://youtu.be/dBSuapNMQXU?si=6UnXILusW8w2rM6K

How James [Yaaqov] Beloved Brother of Jesus Was Written out of Early Christianity: 

https://youtu.be/2n5Qg_ekQ_E?si=AQz_H68TWVYpj7N8

The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity, by James D. Tabor: 

https://archive.org/details/the-jesus-dynasty-james-d.-tabor_202301/mode/2up

The Fading of the Jesus Family--Phase One: 

https://youtu.be/FquOk6wpPr8?si=Cci8eP2bMMlUPbDj

The Fading of the Jesus Family: Phase Two:   https://youtu.be/FU8gF8VPH2Q?si=qXaeRYobgV5kIDiQ

Reclaiming Primitive Christianity Part 2: Exploring the Historical Jesus with Dr. James Tabor:  

https://youtu.be/WJNACLcWuLE?si=v3zURHTnrm7Dbfii

Were the Ebionites Heretics? Or Our Best Witness to the Jesus Movement? 

https://youtu.be/HLQ97erL1gc?si=eDWHzX0gQjIVVjKf

The Research of John Davidson 

The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of His Original Teachings, by John Davidson: 

https://archive.org/details/gospelofjesusins0000davi/mode/2up

The Research of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

The Revelation of Elchasai, a scholarly book by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, exploring the Elkesaites, a Jewish-Christian sect originating in the Transjordan, their connections to the Ebionites, Nazarenes, Gnosticism (Sethians, Mandaeans, Manichaeans and the Prophet Mani);

The Research of Dr. Samuel Zinner

Jewish-Christian Influences in Nascent Islam:  https://vimeo.com/182671329 

Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians, By James Bean (Veg Passages, Expanded, Updated): 

@ Medium: 

https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/evidence-that-jesus-and-the-original-aramaic-christians-were-vegetarians-b8784ac42506

@ Blog: 

https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2019/04/evidence-that-jesus-and-original.html

Vegetarianism and the Yoke of the Lord in the Didache, by James Bean

 

Vegetarianism and the Yoke of the Lord in the Didache, by James Bean

In an early Christian text called the Didache is a statement to new gentile converts to do the best they can, giving them time to adjust or transition to the ethical ideals of the Jesus Movement: "If thou art able to bear the whole yoke of the Lord, thou wilt be perfect. But if thou art not able, what thou art able, that do. But concerning meat, bear that which thou art able to do. But keep with care from things sacrificed to idols, for it is the worship of the infernal deities."

"The Yoke of the Lord" was a term for the ethical code of the Jesus movement according to the Didache, an early witness to vegetarianism at a time when some of the first gentiles became interested in following Christ. Vegetarianism was part of the Yoke of the Lord and here very opposed to even new converts from day one eating meat sacrificed to idols (“the worship of dead gods” as it’s rendered in another translation). Whoever composed that section of the Didache was part of a sect closer to the James the Just branch than Paul's version of Christianity. See Didache, chapter 6: https://othergospels.com/didache

IMAGE: Fragment of an early Christian scripture called the Didache: “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”

Odes of Solomon, Lost Psalms of Early Christianity Discovered - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts

 

Odes of Solomon, Lost Psalms of Early Christianity Discovered

“I extended my hands and hallowed my Lord,

For the expansion of my hands is His sign.

And my extension is the upright cross.

Hallelujah.” (Ode 27)

Out of all the apocryphal writings I've collected, I think the Odes of Solomon is the most beautiful, inspiring and inspired, the greatest scripture of the Jesus movement. It is the would-be book of New Testament psalms! The Book of the Odes has been described as the first known hymn-book of early Christianity. They have nothing to do with "Solomon" but somewhere-along-the-way got mislabeled and assigned to the genre of Old Testament Apocrypha as the Odes represent one of the earliest of Christian documents near the beginning of the Jesus movement within Judaism and so composed before a time when there were many Jewish or Christian writings associated with a "new" covenant, and long before the concept of a New Testament canon or collection of scriptures was conceived of. Thus, this collection of psalms was named in a way that's reminiscent of how some scriptures were assigned names during the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the pseudepigraphical literature. This indicates a very early date of composition.

For me the Odes, as well as another collection of mystic poems called, Metaphysical Meditations, by Paramahansa Yogananda, during my formative years as a spiritual seeker proved to be quite influential. They also gave me a preview of the type of literature I would eventually be introduced to: the Adi Granth (Sikh Scriptures) and various collections of bhakti mystic poetry of the Sants of India: Kabir, Dadu, Namdev, Paltu, Tulsi Sahib, Soamiji Maharaj, and many others.

I know a thousand Rumis the world needs to hear,

to be soothed by the Voice of the Soul

that speaks through them all.

Hafiz, Shams, Sarmad, Kabir, Mira Bai, Sahajo Bai,

Rabia, Tukaram, Hazrat Sultan Bahu, Baba Farid,

Nanak, Tulsi Sahib, Surdas, Dariya Sahib,

Dharam Das, Namdev, Ravidas, Paltu —

countless are the lovers of the Beloved.

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The Odes of Solomon consist of 41 psalms. The Odes are believed to have originated in either Antioch or Edessa in Syriac-Aramaic most likely during the First Century AD.

One scholar (James Charlesworth) said of the Odes, "Here are some of the most beautiful songs of peace and joy that the world possesses."

The New Testament scholar Bentley Layton says that the Odes were considered to be inspired scripture and were chanted by Christians who lived in Syria and all around Mesopotamia about 2,000 years ago.

J. Rendel Harris, the discoverer of one Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the Odes, said the Odes were eventually included in the Sahidic Bible of Egypt.

These ecstatic hymns remind me of Rumi or Sufi love poetry in the tradition of "the lover and the Beloved." They also remind me of the Sikh scriptures (Adi Granth) and mystic poetry of the Sants. Many have adopted the practice of contemplating verses of the Odes and report being brought to a deeper level of devotion (bhakti); being caught up in a love-affair with God, the Ocean of Love. That's also been my experience.

ODE 12: Through the Word (Logos)... Worlds Converse!

"He filled me with words of truth

that I may speak the same.

Like the flow of waters truth flows from my mouth,

and my lips reveal its harvest,

and it gives me the gold of knowledge

for the mouth of the Lord is the true Word

and the Door of His Light.

And the Highest One gave the Word to His worlds,

which interpret His own beauty,

recite His praise,

confess His thought,

are heralds of His mind,

are instructors of His works.

For the swiftness of the Word is ineffable

and like His statement are Its swiftness and sharpness.

Its course knows no end,

It never fails, it stands.

Its descent and Its way are incomprehensible.

Like His work is Its end

for It is the Light and the dawn of thought,

and through It worlds converse...

The mouth of the Highest One spoke to them

and he was made clear by His Word.

The dwelling place of the Word is man

and Its truth is love."

In Divine Love, Light and Sound, Peace Be To You,

James Bean

Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts

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Podcast: Lost Psalms of the New Testament Restored: The Book of the ODES

 

Podcast: Lost Psalms of the New Testament Restored: The Book of the ODES

Let's Explore the Would-Be Book of New Testament Psalms: THE ODES -- The Restoration of the Hymnbook of Early Christianity, Today on Spiritual Awakening Radio. The Odes got misnamed, misunderstood, misfiled, misplaced somewhere along the way becoming one of those Lost Books of the Bible. As far as I am concerned, The Book of the Odes, is the greatest extra-canonical or apocryphal scripture of all time. This mysterious collection of ancient psalms known as, The Book of the Odes, composed in Syriac- Aramaic, has been described as "some of the most beautiful songs of peace and joy that the world possesses." We are grateful for the restoration of the Hymnbook of Early Christianity, the would-be book of New Testament psalms!

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PODCAST: The Vegetarian Apostles and Scriptures of the Original Jesus Movement

PODCAST: The Vegetarian Apostles and Scriptures of the Original Jesus Movement

The Vegetarian Apostles and Scriptures of the Original Jesus Movement ...also...Prayers for the World to Go Vegan -- Spiritual Awakening Radio With James Bean @ Youtube: https://youtu.be/LfuezdWESNo

OR Listen and DOWNLOAD @ The Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/VegetarianChristianity

One thing that might be rather surprising to most people that can be learned by doing a study of the gospels, acts and other literature of the Hebrew Christians -- the Ebionites -- the Christianity that Existed Before Paul -- is that, rather than some imagined Sunday school notion of a fish market in the village of Galilee being operated by the disciples of Jesus, there is significant evidence that the Original Jesus Movement and well-known apostles became vegetarians. And furthermore, this vegetarianism of the disciples and Jesus Movement is fairly widely known and mentioned by the early church fathers. It's not that this information is coming from recently discovered writings dug up in the Middle East. Rather, these are old texts that have been with us since the early days of Christianity but didn't seem all that meaningful and significant to a pro-meat carnistic population. Vegetarians however would indeed be most interested finding this out!

EBook: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians: "James was a vegetarian…." (Professor Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus) "James, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine." (Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3) "The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, and nuts, hard-shelled fruits, and vegetables, without flesh." (Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, Book 2, Chapter 1) Peter said, "I live on olives and bread, to which I rarely only add vegetables." (Clementine Homilies 12,6; also see, Recognitions 7,6): 

@ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/b8784ac42506

@ The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/JesusAndTheOriginalAramaicChristiansWereVegetarians/mode/2up

Sayings of Jesus (Yeshua), Ebionite (Nasoraean, Jewish or Hebrew Christian) Scriptures and Vegetarian Gospels -- Sant Mat Radhasoami Books, The E Library: Ebionite/Hebrew Christianity Section: https://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com/2019/01/ebionite-nasoraean-jewish-or-hebrew.html

"Jacobus [James], the brother of Jesus, lived of seeds and vegetables and did not accept meat or wine." (Saint Augustine)

"The consumption of animal flesh was unknown up until the great flood. But since the great flood, we have had animal flesh stuffed into our mouths. Jesus, the Christ, who appeared when the time was fulfilled, again joined the end to the beginning, so that we are now no longer allowed to eat animal flesh." (pro-vegetarian early church father Hieronymus [St. Jerome] who apparently read the Gospel of the Hebrews and was influenced by Ebionite views)

"Sacrifices were invented by men to be a pretext for eating flesh." (Clement of Alexandria)

"The steam of meat meals darkens the spirit. One can hardly have virtue if one enjoys meat meals and feasts. In the earthly paradise [Eden], no one sacrificed animals, and no one ate meat." (Saint Basil the Great)

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Ebionite (Nasoraean, Jewish or Hebrew Christian) Scriptures and Vegetarian Gospels

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Ebionite (Hebrew Christian) Scriptures

The Hebrew Christian-Nasoraean-Ebionite-Clementine-James the Just Page: The Original Christianity (Christianity Before Paul), A Collection of Ebionite Scriptures and Vegetarian Gospels of the Jesus Movement Affiliated with James the Just or Teacher of Righteousness, Also Other Early Jewish/Hebrew Christian Sources, Thr John the Baptist Group, Aramaic Mandaean Texts, etc…

I do agree with the scholar Robert Eisenman that finding the historic James the Just (brother and spiritual successor of Jesus) is the most logical way to locate a historic Jesus. This Nasoraean/James the Just/Ebionite page is a project to gather together what remains of their scriptures so this original group — Christianity before Paul — awkwardly marginalized by Paul and later Roman versions of Christianity — can be more easily accessed. I do include the Gospel of Thomas on the list because of GoT Saying #12, which states that James the Just, Jesus’s brother, is his spiritual successor. Plus, saying two of the Gospel of Thomas is also found in the Gospel of the Hebrews. Mostly what has survived of Ebionite writings comes to us in the form of the Clementine literature, which is quite amazing material.

Library: Essential Essene & Ebionite Texts (free pdfs): 

https://www.essenechurch.com/resources.html

Sayings of Jesus

Reconstructed Q Gospel found in, The Complete Gospels, by Robert J. Miller: 

https://archive.org/details/complete-gospels-ed.-robert-j.-miller/page/253/mode/2up

The Q Thomas Reader - The best and most readable one-volume introduction available to the Sayings Gospel Q and the Gospel of Thomas-the very earliest collections of the sayings and parables of Jesus: 

https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Reader-English-Coptic/dp/0944344119

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780944344118

Coptic Gospel of Thomas from Nag Hammadi: 

https://othergospels.com/thomas/?a=halsall

The Didache: 

https://othergospels.com/didache

Letter of James: 

https://othergospels.com/bible/james

Secret Book of James

https://othergospels.com/james

The Gospel of Philip:

https://othergospels.com/philip

The Evangelion: Proto-Luke Published by Marcion: 

https://othergospels.com/marcion

Also See: The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon

by Jason David BeDuhn (The Evangelion: Proto-Luke and, The Apostolikon: Ten Less Edited Earlier Versions of Letters of Paul, Pre-Canonical Paul): 

 https://archive.org/details/the-first-new-testament-marcions-scriptural-canon

Early Christian Psalms: The Book of the Odes: 

https://othergospels.com/odes

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/odes.html

Other Gospels.com: 

https://OtherGospels.com/alphabetical-index

The Complete Gospels, by Robert J. Miller: 

https://archive.org/details/MILLERCompleteGospels1994

The Research of Prof. James Tabor 

on the Original Jesus Movement and James the Just: 

How James [Yaaqov] Beloved Brother of Jesus 

Was Written out of Early Christianity:

https://youtu.be/2n5Qg_ekQ_E?si=81V1MfBvg8tL4TZD

The Research of Keith Akers

I highly recommend two books by Keith Akers on the original Jesus Movement (Christianity-Before-Paul), the Ebionites: "Disciples": 
https://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Jewish-Christianity-Shaped-Shattered-ebook/dp/B00J48GAJE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=keith+akers&qid=1586786123&sr=8-1

And by Keith Akers..."The Lost Religion of Jesus": 
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Religion-Jesus-Christianity-Non-Violence-ebook/dp/B003KTNBMM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1586786168&refinements=p_27%3AKeith+Akers&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Keith+Akers

Read for free online, The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, by Akers, Keith: 

https://archive.org/details/lostreligionofje0000aker/mode/2up

Read for free online, The Vegetarianism of Jesus Christ, by Charles Paul Vaclavik:

https://archive.org/details/vegetarianismofj0000vacl

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians: “James was a vegetarian….” (Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus) “James, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine.” (Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3) “The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, and nuts, hard-shelled fruits, and vegetables, without flesh.” (Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, Book 2, Chapter 1) Peter said, “I live on olives and bread, to which I rarely only add vegetables.” (Clementine Homilies 12,6; also see, Recognitions 7,6) @ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/b8784ac42506

The Dietary Divide: Vegetarianism as a Wedge Issue in First-Century Christianity, by Christopher M. Sartain: 

https://www.academia.edu/144633880/The_Dietary_Divide_Vegetarianism_as_a_Wedge_Issue_in_First_Century_Christianity?source=swp_share

God Never Desired Animal Sacrifice: Evidence from the Prophets and the Early Jesus Movement, by Christopher M Sartain:  https://www.academia.edu/144683591/God_Never_Desired_Animal_Sacrifice_Evidence_from_the_Prophets_and_the_Early_Jesus_Movement

A Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas 

and the Gospel of the Hebrews

“It seems that, in constructing his ‘harmony’ [Diatessaron], he [Tatian] used not just the ‘canonical’ Gospels, but also a ‘fifth source’, whose material sometimes agreed with readings proper to texts like the Gospel to the Hebrews or the Gospel of Thomas. It has been proposed to identify this source with that Aramaic tradition of Palestinian origin, independent of the Greek Gospels, that had first conveyed a knowledge of Jesus to the peoples of Syria, pivoting, to begin with, on the region’s Jewish communities. Certainly, West Aramaic expressions or, more generally, elements left a deep mark not just and perhaps not so much on the Peshitta as on the more general exegetical and ‘spiritual’ meditation of the Churches of Syria, as many recent studies have demonstrated (cf. e.g. S. Brock, The Lost Old Syriac…).”

— Paolo Bettiolo, Syriac Literature, page 426: https://archive.org/details/SyriacLiterature

Ebionite Scriptures — Original Disciples,


Hebrew Christians


The Jerusalem Group — 


James the Just, 


Collections of the Sayings of Yeshua

Sayings of Wisdom -- 4 Versions of the COPTIC


Gospel of Thomas (Sayings of Jesus):

(1) The Coptic Gospel of Thomas Followed by (down the page) the Oxyrhynchus Greek Gospel of Thomas:

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/thomas-layton.html

(2): http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom-meyer.html (This version of the Gospel of Thomas translated by Marvin Meyer has a slightly more Aramaic-Syriac flavor to it.)

(3): https://web.archive.org/web/20190725071654/https://users.misericordia.edu/davies/thomas/Thomas.html

(4): https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas

(5): https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas.html

(6) From OtherGospels.com Various Translations of GoT including a Topical Gospel of Thomas: 

https://othergospels.com/thomas

(7): https://othergospels.com/thomas/?a=halsall

The sayings attributed to Jesus but uniquely associated with the Gospel of Thomas tradition also were also quoted far and wide in other early Christian writings. An impressive book documenting the transmission of these “Thomasonian” parallel sayings of Jesus is: Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus, by William D. Stroker, Published by Scholars Press, Atlanta (1989) ISBN 10: 1555400558, ISBN 13: 9781555400552

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5269734W/Extracanonical_sayings_of_Jesus

http://www.worldcat.org/title/extracanonical-sayings-of-jesus/oclc/246551120

Summarizing the Spiritual Message of the Gospel of Thomas in the Context of Syriac Mysticism, by James Bean: https://medium.com/@SantMat/summarizing-the-spiritual-message-of-the-gospel-of-thomas-by-james-bean-90862170ac8a

The Gospel of Thomas - Wisdom of the Twin, Lynn Bauman translation: 

https://archive.org/details/gospelofthomaswi0000unse/mode/2up

Professor Steven Davies has written some valuable observations about the "Primordial Light" mysticism of the Gospel of Thomas:

http://users.misericordia.edu/davies/thomas/jblprot.htm  

Gospel of Thomas COMMENTARY: 

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/index.html

Gospel of Thomas Resource Center, by Michael W Grondin: 

http://gospel-thomas.net

The GREEK Gospel of Thomas -- The Gospel of 

Thomas Fragments from Oxyrhynchus: 

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thomas_poxy.htm

The Greek Oxyrhynchus Gospel of Thomas was published in 1897 in the book, Sayings of Our Lord from Early Greek Papyrus, by BERNARD GRENFELL and ARTHUR HUNT: https://archive.org/details/sayingsourlordf00huntgoog

Bentley Layton's Translation (Scroll Down Past the Coptic Thomas Translation to get to the Greek Oxyrhynchus Fragments):

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/thomas-layton.html

Veg Saying of Jesus from Islam: Christ said, “Flesh eating flesh? How offensive an act!” - The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, by Tarif Khalidi: 

https://archive.org/details/the-muslim-jesus-sayings-and-stories-in-islamic-literature-collected-edited-and-/mode/2up

The saying above reminds me of The Gospel of Thomas, Saying 112: Soul should be independent of flesh: Jesus said, “Woe to the flesh that depends upon a soul. Woe to the soul that depends upon flesh.” (The Gnostic Scriptures, Bentley Layton, David Brakke)

The Gospel of Q Collection

The Q Gospel According to Dr. James Tabor:

https://jamestabor.com/try-reading-the-gospel-of-q-based-on-luke

The Q Gospel:
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/q.html

Q: The Lost Sayings Source Burton Mack's translation:

https://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/Burton-Macks-Q-Text.pdf

The Sayings Gospel Q -- International Q Project: 

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~kloppen/iqpqet.htm

The Sayings Gospel Q -- Text according to Funk/Miller:

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/q-funk.html

The Q Gospel: 
https://www.gospels.net/quelle

Sayings of Wisdom -- Sayings Gospel Q:

http://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/Burton-Macks-Q-Text.pdf

Jesus in Q: The Sabbath and Theology of the Bible and Extracanonical Texts: 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jesus_in_Q/e3ijDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=archive.org+Jesus+in+Q:+The+Sabbath+and+Theology+of+the+Bible+and+Extracanonical+Texts&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcover

Collections of Sayings of Jesus, 


Gospel Fragments, 

Gospel of the Hebrews, 

Hebrew Matthew,

Gospel of the Nazoraeans,

Gospel of the Ebionites, 

Gospel of Peter,

Syriac-Aramaic Matthew, 

Syriac-Aramaic Mark, 

Syriac-Aramaic Luke, 

and Syriac-Aramaic John

Other Collections of Sayings of Jesus:
https://torahofyeshuah.blogspot.com/2015/05/gospel-of-hebrews-matthew-ebionites.html

Sayings Attributed to Jesus from Lesser-known Gospels:
https://medium.com/@SantMat/sayings-attributed-to-jesus-from-lesser-known-gospels-976c691105eb

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel Fragment:
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/poxy840.html

Gospel of the Savior:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944344682/peterkirby


Gospel of Peter: 

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelpeter-andrewbernhard.html

“Some apocryphal gospels testify to the reverence Jewish followers of Jesus (like the Ebionites) had for James. The Gospel of the Hebrews fragment 21 confirms the account of Paul in 1 Corinthians regarding the risen Jesus’ appearance to James*, and this is mentioned also by the Gospel of Thomas (one of the works included in the Nag Hammadi library), saying 12, which relates that the disciples asked Jesus, ‘We are aware that you will depart from us. Who will be our leader?’ Jesus said to them, ‘No matter where you come [from] it is to James the Just that you shall go, for whose sake heaven and earth have come to exist.’” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Just

*Note: The Apostle Paul didn’t seem to be very acquainted with the contents of Gospels. Not much from Jesus or Gospels are to be found quoted in his letters. For Paul to be familiar with the story recorded in the Gospel of the Hebrews about the Resurrected Christ appearing to James, this indicates that some form of the Gospel of the Hebrews (Ebionites or Nazoraeans) must have been one of the earliest Gospels, somewhat older than — or contemporary with — Paul’s Letters. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians dates back to around 53–57 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians

Gospel of the Ebionites: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelebionites-panarion.html

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelhebrews-throck.html

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospelhebrews.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/nazoreans-ogg.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelnazoreans.html

Surviving Quotes from the Jewish-Christian Gospels: Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of the Hebrews, and Gospel of the Nazoraeans: https://web.archive.org/web/20210223222109/http://www.textexcavation.com/jewishgospels.html

Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew), George Howard: 

https://archive.org/details/Hebrew.Gospel.of.MatthewEvenBohanIbn.ShaprutHoward.1987/mode/1up

Another Copy:

https://archive.org/details/gospelofmatthewa0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up

Hard Copy:

https://www.amazon.com/HEBREW-GOSPEL-MATTHEW-George-Howard/dp/0865549893/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Hebrew+Gospel+of+Matthew&qid=1659514702&sr=8-1

About:

https://pages.charlotte.edu/james-tabor/christian-origins-and-the-new-testament/the-hebrew-gospel-of-matthew

Evangelion da-Mepharreshe Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke

There's a very old Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the Four Gospels that even predates the Syriac Peshitta called Evangelion da-Mepharreshe. It contains some “textual variants”, differs from the Greek gospel manuscripts, and the now standardized, conformist approach used by most New Testament translators. There are two surviving editions of Evangelion da-Mepharreshe, the Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels as well as the Sinai Palimpsest, also known as The Old Syriac Gospels. Evangelion da-Mepharreshe represents a translation and “one of the earliest witnesses”* of an even older collection of gospel manuscripts that no longer exist but once were “in circulation between the second and the fifth centuries”*.: 

https://archive.org/details/cu31924092359680/page/n417/mode/2up?view=theater

*Note: Page xviii, “Peshitta New Testament, The Antioch Bible English Translation”, Gorgias Press, discussion from the Preface about the history of the early Syriac-Aramaic manuscripts of the gospels.

The Diatessaron (What Survives of Tatian’s Gospel Harmony): https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/diatessaron.html

New Testament Apocrypha:
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocrypha.html

Testament of our Lord in Galilee (The Epistula Apostolorum: Letter of the Apostles):
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/apostolorum.html

The Testament of Our Lord, Translated into English from the Syriac:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029296170/page/n8/mode/2up

Islamic Traditions of Sayings of Jesus

The Muslim Jesus -- This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature: The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, by Tarif Khalidi.

Also See, Al Ghazali's "Sayings of Jesus", taken from his "Revival of the Religious Sciences: https://imgur.com/a/Y681p5l   (excerpted from, The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts, by Robert M. Price)


Also See, The Unknown Sayings of Jesus, by Marvin Meyer.

The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four 

Formative Texts, by Robert Price: 

https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Nicene-New-Testament-Fifty-four-Formative/dp/1560851945/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600016067&sr=8-6

The Vegetarianism of the Jesus Movement, Nasoraeans and Ebionites: The above quoted passage is from the Clementine Homilies Book Eight as mentioned by James Tabor: https://youtu.be/Um82vqqS3XE?t=983

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: 

The Vast Treasure-Trove 

of the Clementine Literature




Epistle (Letter) of Peter to James:
https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Peter-to-James.htm


Epistle (Letter) of Clement to James:
https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Clement-to-James.htm

Also See: 
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/080800.htm



Kerygmata Petrou 

(Preachings of Peter Reconstructed):
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/kerygmatapetrou.html

The Ascents of James: 

History and Theology of 

a Jewish-Christian Community, by Robert E. Van

 Voorst:  

https://archive.org/details/ascentsofjameshi0000vanv/mode/2up

The Clementine Homilies and 

The Clementine Recognitions 

(Ebionite Book of Acts)



Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Recognitions of Clement, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts: 
https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Recognitions/Recognitions-TOC.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Clementine Homilies, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Homilies-TOC.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The SYRIAC-ARAMAIC Manuscripts of the Recognitions and Homilies: 
https://www.academia.edu/9843447/The_Syriac_Clementine_Recognitions_and_Homilies_The_First_Complete_Translation_of_the_Text

The Eight Books of Clement:
https://torahofyeshuah.blogspot.com/2015/08/8-books-of-clement.html

The Clementine Books at the Sacred Texts Website:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/index.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Recognitions of Clement:
https://archive.org/details/AnteNiceneChristianLibraryVol031867/page/n7

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Clementine Homilies:
https://archive.org/details/clementinehomili00clem/page/n7

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: Helpful Table of Contents for the Clementine Literature and Other Writings: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.toc.html

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: Clementine Homilies: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/clementinehomilies.html

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume VIII — The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, THE CLEMENTIA (Clementine Literature), Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.pdf http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.txt

The Didache, pronounced “DID-dah-kay”, meaning: "The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations", is not quite a Jewish-Christian text in its present form but represents a First Century document authored by a community aware of the Jewish-Christians, adjacent to them, and is respectful of them. Chapters one through six is the earliest section and the closest to Jewish Christianity. Includes a reference to vegetarianism as part of "The Yoke of the Lord", the ethical code of the disciples of Jesus being perfected in their faith. This scripture seems to be intended for newly converted gentile Christians.  Several translations are here. The Roberts-Donaldson English translation is the best: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html

Letter of Jude (New Testament):

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jude&version=NIV&showfn=yes&showxref=yes&language=en

Letter of the Apostle James (New Testament):

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james&version=NIV&showfn=yes&showxref=yes&language=en

The Apocryphon of James (Nag Hammadi):

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/jam2.html

The First Apocalypse of James (Nag Hammadi):

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/1ja.html

The Second Apocalypse of James (Nag Hammadi):

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2ja.html

Thomas the Contender (Spiritual Athlete): 

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/bookt.html

Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (from the Syriac), translated by William Wright (including the Hymn of the Peal and the Complete Acts of Thomas): 
https://archive.org/details/apocryphalactsa02wriggoog/page/n172

Psalms/ODES/Hymns of the New Testament Age

Odes @ Gnosis.org:

http://gnosis.org/library/odes.htm

Psalms/ODES of the New Testament Age: The First Hymn-Book — Hymns — Poetry — The Book of the Odes:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/odes.html

Psalms/ODES of the New Testament Age: The First Hymn-Book — Hymns — Poetry — The Book of the Odes, Alphonse Mingana Translation:
https://archive.org/details/odespsalmsofsolo02harruoft/page/n5/mode/2up

Odes of Solomon:

https://www.nuhra.net/nuhra-2020

ABOUT the Odes: Odes of Solomon: Early Hymns of the Jewish Christian Mystical Tradition:

https://www.academia.edu/4440268/Odes_of_Solomon_Early_Hymns_of_the_Jewish_Christian_Mystical_Tradition

Philo of Alexandria on the Therapeutae: http://www.thenazareneway.com/therapeutae.html


Philo of Alexandria on the Essenes:
 http://cojs.org/philo-_every_good_man_is_free_xii-_75-87-_description_of_the_essenes



Dead Sea Scrolls - Dead Sea Scriptures in English

James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher, Robert Eisenman:

https://archive.org/details/jamesjustinhabak0000eise/mode/2up

The Midrash Pesher of Habakkuk, Scholar's Press: 

https://archive.org/details/midrashpesherofh0000unse/mode/2up

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the first Christians, Robert Eisenman:

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-900/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsfi00eise

The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Géza Vermes, 

Online Translation: https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-Uy_BZ_QGsaLiJ4Zs/The%20Dead%20Sea%20Scrolls%20%5BComplete%20English%20Translation%5D#page/n2/mode/1up

The Dead Sea Scriptures, T.H. Gaster: 

https://archive.org/details/deadseascripture00theo/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.17421/page/3/mode/2up

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, Robert Eisenman: 

https://archive.org/details/TheDeadSeaScrollsUncoveredEisenmanWise1992

https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsun0000unse_o6d9/page/n319/mode/2up

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Penguin Classics: 

https://archive.org/details/the-complete-dead-sea-scrolls-in-english-pdfdrive_202211/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/completedeadseas0000unse_p8c4

The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: 

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-920

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: 

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-932

Dead Sea Scrolls: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scrolls_deadsea/scrolls_deadsea.htm

The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Online Translation: https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-Uy_BZ_QGsaLiJ4Zs/The%20Dead%20Sea%20Scrolls%20%5BComplete%20English%20Translation%5D#page/n2/mode/1up

Dead Sea Scroll Translations @ Gnosis.org:
http://gnosis.org/library/scroll.htm



Nasoraeans: John the Baptist Group & Mandaeans

Sayings of Yuhana (John The Baptist) - Mandaean Nasoraean, Ginza Rabba (Great Treasure): 

https://archive.org/details/sayings-of-yuhana-john-the-baptist-mandaean-nasoraean/page/n1/mode/2up

Sayings of Yuhana (John The Baptist) - Mandaean Nasoraean, Ginza Rabba (Great Treasure, Another Translation): 

https://culminationofwisdom.org/2025/08/08/sayings-of-john-the-baptist-from-the-ginza-rabba

Hidden Sayings of John the Baptist: 

https://youtu.be/JSzAz3Yh1qI

https://archive.org/details/hidden-sayings-of-john-the-baptist

The Original John the Baptist Group, the Mandaeans (also known as Nazarenes, Nasuraiia or Nasoraeans) — Mandaean Aramaic Scriptures Online — Gnosis Library: http://www.gnosis.org/library/mand.htm

A New Life of John the Baptist: 

https://archive.org/details/woodbrookestudie01theouoft/page/138/mode/2up?q=vegetarian

MANDAEAN: CANONICAL PRAYER-BOOK OF THE MANDAEANS: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.530195

Canonical Prayer-Book of the Mandaeans:

https://www.oocities.org/mandaeanworld1/cpindex.html

MANDAEAN: CANONICAL PRAYER-BOOK OF THE MANDAEANS: http://books.google.com/books?id=1c8UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=THE+CANONICAL+PRAYERBOOK+%0D%0AOF+THE+MANDAEANS&hl=en&ei=v-HJTK2HKsX7lwfhlOXMAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ginza Rabba - Mark Lidzbarski Translation from German Into English: 

https://archive.org/details/ginza-lidzbarski-mark-ram-al-sabiry.translated-2/page/n1/mode/2up

Ginza Rabba & the Qolasta @ Wikisource:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Ginza_Rabba

The Mandaean Book of John the Baptist: http://rogueleaf.com/book-of-john/category/john-the-baptist

Scroll of Miryai-Noorah (Mary Magdalene), Drashe d-Malke 34 & 35:

https://deepgnosis.org/miryaiscroll.html

Mandaean Scriptures: http://egnu93.wordpress.com/writings/mandaean-gnostic-texts

Mandaean Scriptures: http://www.essene.com/B%27nai-Amen/vbelief.htm

https://www.oocities.org/mandaeanworld1/manlit.html

Revisiting the Mandaeans and the New Testament: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2013/08/mcg378026.shtml

Mandaean Scriptures:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Qolasta

Mandaean Scriptures:

https://worddisk.com/wiki/Right_Ginza/#

About the Mandaeans: 

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mandaeans-2-religion

Mandaean Glossary of Terms: 

https://www.oocities.org/mandaeanworld1/glossarymain.html

Syriac-Aramaic Saints and Mystics

“The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life”, and other books translated by Sebastian Brock. “The Syriac Fathers…” is from Cistercian Publications — an excellent anthology of Syriac mystics and saints, a kind of Syriac “Philokalia” or “Nag Hammadi”-like collection of important texts. Also see the link at the bottom of the page to, the "Gnostic Gospels, Contemplative or Mystical Christianity, Syriac Mystics", etc... Section of the E-Library. There is a Syriac Section down the page there just below the School of Saint Thomas Section.)

The Stranger of Galilee, by Russell Perkins:

https://archive.org/details/strangerof-galilee

https://issuu.com/santajaibsinghsatsang/docs/stranger_of_galilee__russell_perkin

https://santbaniashram.org/product/the-stranger-of-galilee

The Vegetarianism -- Veganism 

of the Hebrew Christians

Was Jesus a vegan? Blog by Keith Akers: 

https://www.compassionatespirit.com/wpblog/2020/12/14/was-jesus-a-vegan-2

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Uncovering A Vegetarian Jesus at the Beginning of Christianity: “Now beware in yourselves that your hearts do not become heavy with the eating of flesh and with the intoxication of wine and with the anxiety of the world, and that day come up upon you suddenly; for as a snare it will come upon all them that dwell on the surface of the earth.” (Jesus, Luke 21:34, from a Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the New Testament): https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/9279741be7c4

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians: “James was a vegetarian….” (Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus) “James, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine.” (Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3) “The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, and nuts, hard-shelled fruits, and vegetables, without flesh.” (Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, Book 2, Chapter 1) Peter said, “I live on olives and bread, to which I rarely only add vegetables.” (Clementine Homilies 12,6; also see, Recognitions 7,6) @ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/b8784ac42506

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians @ Blogspot:
https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2019/04/evidence-that-jesus-and-original.html

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians @ The Internet Archive: 
https://archive.org/details/JesusAndTheOriginalAramaicChristiansWereVegetarians/mode/2up

DOWNLOAD: https://ia803007.us.archive.org/19/items/JesusAndTheOriginalAramaicChristiansWereVegetarians/Evidence%20That%20Jesus%20and%20The%20Original%20Aramaic%20Christians%20Were%20Vegetarians%2C%20By%20James%20Bean.pdf

A Vegetarian Jesus and Apostles at the Beginning of Christianity, and, The Gospels of the Ebionites:

https://youtu.be/HF3cOxbRFH8

Was Jesus A Vegetarian? [Yes.]: 

https://youtu.be/gN-3BfydA-U

John the Baptist's Vegetarian Diet -- An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts:

https://youtu.be/rBM34Cm4laE

Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio Interview With Robert Eisenman on how finding the historic James the Just is the most logical approach to locating a historic Jesus: http://youtu.be/0oR-M1sSxrw

Vegetarianism and Gnosticism — Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJh66vIJz0&ab_channel=AeonByteGnosticRadio

Vegetarianism in Early Christianity: 

https://ivu.org/history/christian/christ_veg.html

Vegetarian Christian Saints,

by Holly H. Roberts: 

https://archive.org/details/vegetarianchrist0000holl/mode/2up

Women Priests, Vegetarianism – An Early Christian Manuscript Holds Some Surprises: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2000/02/women-priests-vegetarianism-an-early-christian-manuscript-holds-some-surprises

The Acts of Philip: A New Translation, by François Bovon, Christopher R. Matthews: 

https://www.amazon.com/Acts-Philip-New-Translation/dp/1602586551/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Acts+of+Philip%3A+A+New+Translation&qid=1606592664&sr=8-1

The Ebionites: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ebionites

Books by Robert Eisenman @ Amazon: “James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls”; also, “Dead Sea Scrolls & The First Christians”; and, “James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher” — http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Eisenman/e/B000APV2U2

The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of His Original Teachings, by John Davidson: 

https://archive.org/details/gospelofjesusins0000davi/mode/2up

The Ascension of Isaiah

As with the Books on Enoch, the Ascension of Isaiah was a very important extra-canonical book used by the Jesus Movement. 

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ascension.html

Medieval Cathar Version: 

http://gnosis.org/library/Cathar-Vision-Isaiah.htm

Other Items of Research and Interest

The Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopic Bible, Has 81 books in it, Including the Ethiopic Book of Clement (Qälëmentos):
https://www.ethiopianorthodox.org/english/canonical/books.html

The Ethiopic Book of Clement (Qälëmentos) is discussed here: https://www.academia.edu/32686260/The_Ethiopic_Book_of_Clement_the_case_of_a_recent_Ethiopian_edition_and_a_few_additional_remarks

Some Early Judaeo-Christian Documents in the John Rylands Library; Syriac Texts, ed. with translations, by Alphonse Mingana. He translated some Clement writings and discusses the Clementine literature in this book:
https://archive.org/details/someearlyjudaeoc00ming/page/n1/mode/2up

Woodbrooke Studies, Volume I; Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni, by Alphonse Mingana:
https://archive.org/details/woodbrookestudie01theouoft/mode/2up


Torah of Yeshuah Collection: Syriac Bible, Ethiopian, Clementines, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scroll Material, etc...
https://torahofyeshuah.blogspot.com/2015/08/nazarene-canon_6.html

Sacred Texts Site:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/index.htm



ALSO SEE: Gnostic Gospels, Contemplative or Mystical Christianity, Syriac Mystics, Mandaean, Manichaean, Apocrypha, Nag Hammadi Library, Pistis Sophia, Jesus Sutras, Lost Books of the Bible and Spirituality of the West -- Sant Mat Radhasoami Books, The E Library: Gnostic or Western Mysticism Section: https://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com/2019/01/gnostic-gospels-contemplative-or.html

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