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Preface -- Introduction : the secret gospels : a harmony of apocryphal traditions -- 1. A history of Joseph the Carpenter -- 2. The Book of James, Son of Joseph -- 3. The history of the Virgin -- ch. 4. The Annunciation -- 5. The visit and trial -- 6. The nativity of John -- 7. The nativity of Jesus, called the Christ -- 8. The testimony of Joseph the Carpenter to the Night of Wonders -- 9. The midwife's account of the nativity -- 10. The circumcision -- 11. The jealous king -- 12. The child Jesus in Egypt -- 13. John and Jesus in Egypt -- 14. The child Jesus in Nazareth -- 15. Jesus and the teachers -- 16. Jesus and the child Zeno -- 17. Jesus saves a woodsman -- 18. The miracle at the well --- 19. Jesus and his father -- 20. Jesus and James -- 21. The rich man Ibram -- 22. Jesus and the doctors of the law -- 23. The silly teacher -- 24. The miracle of the dyer -- 25. The children in the oven -- 26. The funeral of Joses -- 27. The interim -- 28. The baptism -- 29. The death of Joseph -- 30. The sleep and awakening of Mary, virgin and mother -- Epilogues -- The hymn of the pearl -- The Philippian incarnation hymn -- A miscellany of nativity hymns -- Ignatius of Antioch on the nativity -- The apocryphal infancy tradition in Islam -- appendix. The family of Jesus -- Endnotes -- Bibliographical notes. |
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