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The papyruses are Greek translations of texts written between the end of the First century BC and AD 180, and they constitute a body of work also known as the Apocryphal Gospels because they are not included in the Bible as we know it today. Now, why is that? In AD 170, a group of bishops decided which texts would form part of the New Testament... other books.. were omitted either because they were written by women or because they depicted a Jesus who was aware of his divine mission and whose passage through death would, therefore, be less drawn out and painful. (en) |
