Banned, Burned, and Buried: Scripture Outside the Judeo-Christian Canon
From secret gospels to Jewish apocalypses, and from sectarian scripture to historical fan-fiction, this class will explore the texts that were kept out of the Bibles as we know them today. We will also examine the very notion of scripture as we trace the history of sacred writings in the Judeo-Christian tradition, beginning with the earliest fragments of the Hebrew Bible and concluding with canonical controversies of the early Christian church.