This Christian text you’ve never heard of barely mentions Jesus − but it was a favorite of early Christians

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This Christian text you’ve never heard of barely mentions Jesus − but it was a favorite of early Christians

People usually think about the Bible as a book with a fixed number of texts within its pages: 24 books in the Jewish version of the Bible; 66 for Protestants; 73 for Catholics; 81 if you’re Ethiopian Orthodox.Writings that didn’t make it into the Bible, on the other hand, are often called “apocrypha,” a Greek term that refers to hidden or secret things. There are hundreds of apocryphal Jewish and Christian texts that, for one reason or another, …