An Atheist Explores The Apocrypha Part One: Introduction
Welcome An Atheist Explores Sacred Texts (Apocrypha version). In this series I work my way chapter-by-chapter through the Biblical Apocrypha, commenting on it from the point of view of the text as literature and mythology. For the online KJV I use, see here http://bit.ly/2m0zVUP I’m returning to the Bible for a bit to look at the Apocrypha, the kind of DVD extras of the Bible. These, I should clarify, are all the Old Testament Apocrypha, not the New Testament ones with the fun stuff like the Gospel of Thomas or Paul and Thecla. Maybe at some point in the future I’ll look at those. But for now, these are various books that aren’t in the Protestant versions of the Bible, but which can be found in Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish Bibles. Although, obviously, there are differences between which books make it into which tradition’s Bible, and to what extent. Because I’m lazy trying to look at this with a minimum of foreknowledge, I couldn’t tell you offhand which books are in whose B