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Table of Apocrypha & articles on religion--by categories

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Carl Barks

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ON RELIGION:  CATEGORIES OF ARTICLES

 

HEADINGS

 

1.  APOCRYPHA;     2.  ANALYSIS OLD TESTAMENT;     3.  ANALYSIS NEW TESTAMENT     4.  ANALYSIS OF APOCRYPHA & PSEUDEPIGRAPHA;     5. PHILOSOPHICAL/ANALYTIC;      6. LITERARY;    7. SCIENTIFIC;     8.  HISTORICAL/ARCHAEOLOGICAL;    9. HISTORICAL CHURCH DOCUMENTS;     10.   BIOGRAPHICAL;     11.  NEWS ARTICLES, ATROCITIES, HISTORICAL;     12.  HUMOR/SATIRE;     13.  ON RELIGIONS;     14.  ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF;     15.  DECEPTIONS;     16.  LINKS

 

 

COLUMNS #1, #2, #3

# 1.  site location:  20/2 is site #20, page ID #2. 

Short address  http://skeptically.org/chxbible/id2.html                                                     

{long address http://jeromekahn123.tripod.com/chxbible/id2.html}

List of addresses:  #1enlightenment; #4 http://logicalthreads; #6thinkersonreligion;  #8 oldtestament; #9 spiritualism; # 10 literary;  #15 onreligion; #16 newtestament; #18 againstreligion; # 19 skepticism; #20 chxbible; #22  christianity; #24 bible; #26 hebskaka.  Be sure to end the address with .html.  Exception, the home page must simply be entered as skepticism. bible, etc.

 

#2. additional information on page:  B= Biographical; C = Commentary; E = commentary an Encyclopedia;  G = Graphics; NC No Commentary found.

 

#3 page # found in Willis Barnstone; The Other Bible, 1984; Harper & Row, SF.  Still in print, for $19.69 at Amazon.com.  The most complete collection of extra biblical works including Jewish sources called Pseudepigrapha, Christian sources called Apocrypha, Gnostic works, early Kabbalah, and like. 

 

 

1.  APOCRYPHA (the 7 sections below):

# 1        

# 2

# 3

     A    GOSPELS

 

 

 

The infancy gospel of Thomas—from Latin text

20/2

C

404

The Infancy gospel of Mathew’s

20/9

NC

393

The gospel of Thomas

20/4

C

398

The gospel of the nativity of Mary

20/13

C

394

Ancient Jewish account of Jesus Christ

1/19

 

 

The Gospel of Philip

20/17

 

 

 

 

 

 

     B   EPISTLES

 

 

 

The Death of Pilate

15/15

C

 

Septuagint Bible—account of its commission

15/17

C

243

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     C   ACTS

 

 

 

The acts of Thomas

15/16

C

464

The acts of Saint Barnabas the Apostle

20/11

NC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     D    CREATION TALES

 

 

 

Book of Jubilees, elaboration on Genesis and Exodus, part 2

26/3

 

10

Book of Jubilees:  part 1, in the beginning

26/9

 

10

Adam & Eve:  as told by their son Seth

15/19

E

 

Life of Adam and Eve

26/2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book of Jubilees—commentary

26/4

CE

10

 

 

 

 

     E   CHRISTIAN OLD & NEW TESTAMENT CHARACTERS

 

 

 

Death of Pilate

15/15 

C

 

Peter versus Simon the Magician

15/3  20/3

C

 

Peter vs. Simon, cont.

15/4

 

 

The history of Joseph the carpenter

20/15

NC

 

The death of Pilate

20/1

C

 

Testament of the twelve patriarchs—Ebionite

20/16

 

 

Story about our Adam’s apple

20/6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     F   MISC,

 

 

 

Commentary on Gospel of Thomas & Nag Hammad library

20/5

C

 

Simon Magnus & other inspired works

20/3

 

 

Rabbinic writings, the Talmud, Madrash, Torah, Mishna, Toseffa,

26/16

CE

 

 

 

 

 

    G   JEWISH

 

 

 

1 Enoch:  Apocalypses once canon*

15/18

CE

485

Ancient Hebrew (Talmud) Account of Christ—McKinsey

24/4

 

 

Apocalypses of Moses

26/8

C

 

Isaiah’s martyrdom

26/10

C

 

Testament of Abraham

26/12

C

 

Life of Adam & Eve

26/2

CE

 

Book of Jubilees:  part 1, in the beginning

26/9

 

10

Book of Jubilees:  Elaboration on Genesis and Exodus, Part 2

26/3

 

 

Sibylline Oracles

26/14

C

501

Sibylline Oracles—appendix with early Christian commentary

26/15

 

554

Testament of the 12 Patriarchs

26/17

CE

 

The story of Anikar

26/19

CE

183

Babylonian Talmud’s account of the roman destruction of Jerusalem

26/18

C

 

 

 

 

 

The book of Jasher, ch 1-7 on Adam and family

26/11

C

 

Book of Jasher, ch 69-79, on Moses

26/13

 

 

Apocalysis of Moses

26/8

C

 

Book of giants

26/7

C

 

Book of Jannes and Jambres

26/5

 

 

Septuagint bible, an account of its commission

15/17

C

 

 

 

 

 

See also “D” (creation tales) above

 

 

 

*  The Book of the Secrets of Enoch is a creation tale, found at p.3 in Barnstone

 

 

 

2.  ANALYSIS OF OLD TESTAMENT

#1

#2

 

Old Testament uninspired, the Pentateuch—JK

8/11

 

 

Hebrew mythology—JK

8/10

 

 

Genesis: when the sons of god mated with the daughters of man--JK

8/12

 

 

Sons of god & daughters of men, two scholars on

8/16

 

 

Exodus and archaeology

1/17

 

 

101 Contradictions of the Old Testament

24/8

 

 

Septuagint Bible—transmission of the Old Testament

26/7

CE

 

Biblical dates for creation

8/15

 

 

Genesis & Babylonian creation myths

8/14

 

 

The God of the Hebrews

107/2

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.  ANALYSIS NEW TESTAMENT

 

 

 

History of Christ—JK

1/ 2

 

 

Shorter look at the question of the historical Christ—JK

1/6

 

 

Introduction to the Jesus legend—JK

16/7

 

 

In the gospels Jesus was mortal—JK

16/8

 

 

Mark describes Jesus’ gay affair—JK & Prof Morton Smith

16/5

 

 

Source of the Jesus legend—JK

16/4

 

 

Catholic theologians skeptical about the historical Christ

16/11

C

 

Published commentary on the previous article

16/26

C

 

Fictional Christ—McKinsey

16/6

 

 

New Testament studies—Professor Wells

16/23

 

 

Earliest Christianity--G.A. Wells, Prof.

16/20

 

 

No historical Jesus, response to a critic by Prof. Wells

16/25

 

 

Who was Jesus by Prof. Wells

16/27

 

 

Old Testament messiah prophecies and the gospels

16/21

 

 

Balanced New Testament analysis

16/14

 

 

The historical reference to Jesus:  a scholarly analysis

16/13

 

 

Textual criticisms of the New Testament—Joseph Lewis

16/17

B

 

Textual problems of the New Testament

16/10

 

 

Nasty Jesus and stupid advise

16/12

 

 

New Testament:  Sources, transmission, variations & modifications

16/16

 

 

Contradictions:  New & Old Testament

16/19

 

 

Biblical canon:  historical analysis thereof

16/18

 

 

James burial hoax—JK

16/9

 

 

What is wrong with the New Testament tales—Joseph Lewis

20/8

 

 

62 contradictions Old & New Testaments

24/7

 

 

194 contradictions New Testament

24/6

 

 

Did Jesus exist—walker

16/28

 

 

The Jesus puzzle—Doherty

16/29

 

 

The Jesus puzzle—Doherty, continued

16/30

 

 

Marijuana and the Bible, Zion Coptic Church

23/9

 

 

Q a product if Christian fantasy

23/11

 

 

Contradictions in the New Testament

23/2

 

 

Sermon on the Mount—contradictions

22/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.  ANALYSIS OF APOCRYPHA & PSEUDEPIGRAPHA

 

 

 

Book of Jubilee—commentary

26/4

 

 

Rabbinic writings, the Talmud, Madrash, Torah, Mishna, Toseffa, Haggada

16/16

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of the apocrypha & pseudepigrapha come with commentary

 

 

 

 

 

5.  PHILOSOPHICAL/ANALYTIC

#1

#2

 

Why god permits harm—various explanations—JK

1/ 4

 

 

John Stuart Mill on his father and religion

1/8, 3/10

B  3/21

 

Strangeness of religion—JK

1/13, 4/5

 

 

Why reject religion/18--JK

15/13

 

 

Reasons for rejecting religion

15/6

 

 

Why god prefers skeptics—JK

4/10

 

 

John Stuart Mill, on immortality

6/13

 

 

Bertrand Russell, Is there a god

6/18

 

 

Walther Kaufmann, the faith of a heretic

6/16

 

 

David Hume, the nature of popular religion

6/12

B

 

David Hume, on miracles

18/5

 

 

Thomas Paine, on the Christian doctrine of love

6/11

 

 

Bertrand Russell, on Christianity

6/7

 

 

Charles Van Doren, why I am not a believer

6/10

 

 

Pascal’s wager:  JK’s correct solution—JK

6/6

 

 

*Diderot applies the philosopher’s tool to Christianity

6/4

B  6/5

 

The soul—Lucretius (from De Rerum Natura)

15/14

B

 

Reasons for the rejection of religion—JK

18/2

 

 

Logical impossibility of divine cause—by a philosophy professor

18/4

 

 

The price and practice of symbolic interpretation of the scriptures—JK

18/14

 

 

Skeptical reasoning on the historical Christ

19/5

C

 

God & evil, a witty story

4/8

C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.  LITERARY

 

 

 

*Twain, Letters from earth

10/8

 

 

*Twain:  5 short humorous blasts at religion

10/6

 

 

*Twain, the damned human race

10/9

 

 

Lucian’s satire on Zeus

10/5

B

 

Lucian, Zeus the pedophile

10/12

 

 

*Browning, The confessional

10/3

 

 

*Diederot, La religieluse (Memoirs of a nun)

10/2

B  6/5

 

*Nietzsche, the antichrist

10/11

 

 

*Masters, two poems on religion

10/13

B

 

Shopping for a religion—JK

10/1

 

 

Poem on Christian religion:  a rant—JK

18/19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This table was divided because Tripod could not handle this document in one piece

 

 

7.  SCIENTIFIC

#1

#2

 

Why the physics of everything was not the product of a designer

1/10

 

 

Vision & the illusion of the ghost in the machine—JK

9/7

 

 

Thought & the illusion of the ghost in the machine—JK

 

 

 

Creationists failed example against evolution—Scientific American

9/5

 

 

Can science explain events in the bible?

18/9

 

 

Creationism, a humorous essay about

22/6

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.  HISTORICAL/ARCHAEOLOGICAL

 

 

 

Egyptian account of the origins of the Hebrews

1/14

C

 

Tacitus, on the origin of the Hebrews

6/2  8/8

C

 

Egyptian account of the leper’s exodus

8/4

C

 

Sargan’s birth legend and Moses

8/3

 

 

Not out of Egypt (Prof. Stiebing)

8/5

 

 

Criticisms of Old Testament history

8/6

 

 

More criticisms of Old Testament history (Prof. Thompson)

8/7

 

 

A review of references to Christ outside the bible

24/3

 

 

Septuagint bible—account of its commission

15/17

CE

 

Rabbinic writings, the Talmud, Madrash, Torah, Mishna, Tosfta

26/16

CE

 

Babylonian Talmud account of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem

26/18

C

 

The Samaritan

8/13

CE

 

Exodus and archaeology

1/17

 

 

Genesis & Babylonian creation myths

8/14

 

 

Philistines—a 10 page account by a Christian archaeologist

8/2

 

 

Babylonian account of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem

26/18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.  HISTORICAL CHURCH DOCUMENTS

 

 

 

Lactanius:  against Epicurus’ blissful gods

15/7

C,  B

 

Hyppolitus:  refutation of all heresies

20/10

C

 

Puritan angry god & evil sermon—Jonathan Edwards

22/4

B

 

Martin Luther, What’s wrong with the Jews

8/3

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.  BIOGRAPHICAL

 

 

 

Famous skeptics & atheists

6/14

 

 

Charles Darwin

6/17

 

 

Founding Fathers’ religious beliefs

6/9

 

 

Einstein the agnostic

6/8

 

 

Denis Diederot, his contribution

6/5

 

 

JK’s faith

15/2

 

 

Voltaire:  the incomparable infidel

37/2

 

 

David Hume

37/3

 

 

David Hume: his autobiography & a biography

37/8

 

 

Stephen Jay Gould

37/6

 

 

Lucian:  Roman Satirist

37/1

 

 

Josephus, Historian of the Jews including the period of Jesus

37/9

 

 

Famous non-theists

37/10

 

 

Charles Darwin, his autobiography, its section on religion

37/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.  NEWS ARTICLES, ATROCITIES, HISTORICAL

 

 

 

Pedophile catholic priests; Article on nuns-JK

15/9, 107/6

 

 

Saint Bartholomew Day’s massacre—JK

15/11

 

 

Hitler the Catholic

18/15

 

 

Martin Luther on the Jews

20/14

 

 

Founded not a Christian nation

22/3

 

 

§Founding Fathers’ religious beliefs

6/9

 

 

Holy horror—atrocities in the name of god.

1/7

 

 

Christian TV propaganda

18/10

 

 

Christian treatment of women

15/12

 

 

When God passes laws + U.S. blue laws

22/1

 

 

Holy horror—atrocities in the name of god

107/4

 

 

Bloody Christian faith—Thomas Paine

107/5

 

 

Requiem for Ateqen Rajari—16-year old publicly hanged

107/3

 

 

Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

22/6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.  HUMOR/SATIRE

 

 

 

Brotherhood of religions—JK

1/9

 

 

Cartoons (the entire collection, almost)

5

 

 

More Twain Bible humor

10/7

 

 

Doc Laura Old Testament morality

18/3

 

 

Old Testament law & Bush

25/21

 

 

Good and evil, a witty story

4/8

 

 

Hank-Jehovah parallel story

5/8

 

 

Creationism, a humorous essay about

22/8

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.  OTHER RELIGIONS

 

 

 

What historians have deduced about the historical Mohammed

1/3

 

 

The story of Ahikar

26/19

 

182

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.  ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF

 

 

 

Why Christianity succeeded—JK

15/9

 

 

Christian TV propaganda—JK

18/10

 

 

The biblical position on women—McKinsey

18/8

 

 

Christian treatment of women—Hypatia Bradlaugh

18/1

 

 

Doc Laura Old Testament morality

18/3

 

 

Intellectual and emotional reasons to believe—Michael Shermer

18/6

 

 

Viruses of the mind—Richard Dawkins

18/7

 

 

Can science explain events in the bible

18/9

 

 

Religion/Christian booklist

18/16

 

 

On the dying atheist

1/11

 

 

Hitler the Catholic

18/13

 

 

Logical impossibility of divine causes

18/5

 

 

The biblical dates for creation

8/15

 

 

Seventh Day Adventists believe in young earth

22/9

 

 

When God passes laws

22/1

 

 

Pope says Satan is unleashing evil energy

22/8

 

 

Catholic business blessing” the more you give the more you receive

22/7

 

 

Puritan angry god sermon—Jonathan Edwards

22/4

 

 

Founded not a Christian nation

22/3

 

 

Pope John Paul, his perverted policies

107/4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.  DECEPTIONS

 

 

 

The Jesus interpolation in Joseph

20/12

 

 

Vatican deed, another forgery

20/7

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.  PILOSOPHICAL

 

 

 

Pantheism—Prof. Beardsley

109/2

 

 

The existence of god—Prof Beardsley

109/3

 

 

Immortality and the problem of evil—Prof Beardsley

109/4

 

 

Logical impossibility of divine causes—prof.. Smith

109/4

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.  LINKS

 

 

 

Christian websites

22/2

 

 

Old testament & other ancient Hebrew texts with links

26/20

 

 

Meritorious links

101/2

 

 

Meritorious quotes JK’s collection

 101/3

 

 

Religious quotes from the web

 101/4

 

 

Religious quotes and discussion

 101/5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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