A Copy Of A Letter Written By Our Blessed Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ. And Found Eighteen Miles From Iconiam, Sixty-three Years After Our Blessed Saviour’s Crucifixion. Transmitted From The Holy City By A Converted Jew [...] - Info and Reading Options

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Full title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> A Copy of a Letter written by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And found eighteen Miles from Iconiam, sixty-three Years after our Blessed Saviour’s Crucifixion. Transmitted from the Holy City by a converted Jew. Faithfully translated from the Original Hebrew Copy now in the Possession of the Lady Cuba’s Family in Mesopotamia. To which is added, King Agbarus’s Letter to Our Saviour, and our Saviour’s Answer. Also, His Cures and Miracles. Likewise, Lentulus’s Epistle to the Senate of Rome, containing, A Description of the Person of Jesus Christ.</span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Broadside printing of three apocryphal texts: Jesus’s so-called ‘Letter from Heaven’, first promulgated in the sixth century; the correspondence between Jesus and ‘Agbarus’ (i.e. King Abgar of Edessa), dating from the third century, and reported in Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica, i:13: 6-9; and the letter of the non-existent ‘Publius Lentulus, Governor of Judea’, possibly as old as the 11th or 12th century (A. Whealey, Josephus on Jesus. The Testimonium Flavianum Controversy from Late Antiquity to Modern Times, New York, 2003, p. 94 (Bib# 4102642 /Fr# 101 in this collection)).</span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">On broadside printings of Abgar, combined with Lentulus, see E. Goodspeed, Modern Apocrypha, Boston, 1956, pp. 56 and 74 (Bib# 4103613/Fr# 1602 in this collection); for fifteenth-sixteenth-century separate editions, and those combined with Lentulus and other apocryphal texts, in Christoph Scheurl’s Utilitates Missae [begins ‘Ep[istol]a D. Schewrli ad charitatem pirchameram’; 1505, 1513 (16 pp.), 1515 (enlarged, 24 pp.)], and the Catalogus gloriae mundi (1529) of Barthélemy Chasseneux, see Irena Backus, ‘Christoph Scheurl and his Anthology of New Testament Apocrypha’, in Apocrypha, 9 (1998), 133–56. See also M.R. James, The apocryphal New Testament, being the apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles, and apocalypses, with other narratives and fragments, newly translated by Montague Rhodes James, Oxford, 1983 [c1953]., pp. 475–77 and E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 57-58.</span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;"></span></span></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"><a href="https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/143154" rel="ugc nofollow"><span style="color:#4B64FF;background:#FFFFFF;">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</span></a></span></p><p></p>

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