The Gospel of the Savior by Charles W Hedrick

The Gospel of the Savior by Charles W Hedrick

On March 20, 1967, the Berlin Egyptian Museum acquired a collection of thirty-three parchment fragments written in Coptic. There they were given the simple designation P22220 and stored unceremoniously in paper folders.

Almost thirty years later, two American scholars working independently of each other--Charles Hedrick and Paul Mirecki--began to study these forgotten fragments. What they found were pieces of a previously unknown gospel, a gospel composed perhaps in the second century and written down sometime between the fourth and seventh centuries.

This new gospel text contains sayings of a speaker identified as the savior and dialogues between the savior and the apostles. While it shares some sayings with the canonical gospels, there are remarkable additions: To the familiar You are the salt of the earth (Matt 5:13), for example, is added the phrase you are the fire that illuminates the world--a saying unknown in the canonical gospels.

In this first-ever publication of The Gospel of the Savior, the scholars who discovered and reconstructed it provide a translation and critical original language text, along with illuminating introduction, commentary, and Coptic/Greek indices. This volume also includes complete facsimile reproductions of the fragments.

Hedrick, Charles W.: - Charles W. Hedrick is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Missouri State University. Among his many publications are The Apocalypse of Adam, Many Things in Parables: Jesus and His Modern Critics, and When History and Faith Collide: Studying Jesus. He is the co-editor of Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel; Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early Christianity; and Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. Robert Hodgson Jr. is Dean of the American Bible Society Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship.

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ISBN 13	9780944344903
ISBN 10	0944344909
Title	The Gospel of the Savior
Author	Charles W Hedrick
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Polebridge Press
Year published	2002-03-30
Number of pages	166
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