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Bibliography and Edition Notes

Bibliography

Lipsius (R. A.), Die apocryphen Apostelgeschichten (Braunschweig, 1883).

Corssen (P.), Monarchianische Prologe zu den Vier Evangelien, T. u. A., xv. i. (Leipzig, 1896).

James (M. R.), Apocrypha Anecdota, T. and S., v. i. (Cambridge, 1897).

Bonnet (M.), Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha (Leipzig, 1898).

Hennecke (E.), Neutestamentliche Apokryphen (Tübingen, 1904).

Mead (G. R. S.), Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, 2nd. ed. (London, 1906).

Mead (G. R. S.), Thrice Greatest Hermes (London, 1906).

Edition Notes

The bibliography above is Mead’s original bibliography, moved here from the front matter. This reading edition includes the complete Preamble, Hymn and Comments of the 1907 volume. The general introduction to the Echoes from the Gnosis series and advertisements are not included. Transcription errors and broken paragraphs have been repaired against print; long vowels in transliterated words use the printed macrons. Five page references use “page:” in place of “p.” to preserve their numbers in the reader.

The Preamble’s reference to Matthew xxvi.31 is a printed reference error: the hymn before departure to the Mount of Olives occurs at Matthew 26:30. The quoted saying about keeping the king’s secret and revealing God’s works, which Mead could not trace, is found at Tobit 12:7, with a repetition at 12:11.

The Preamble gives 1899 for M. R. James’s publication of the Vienna fragment. The correct publication year is 1897, as Mead’s bibliography itself records: Apocrypha Anecdota II, Texts and Studies V.1. The date in Mead’s historical prose has been retained with this correction.

The Comments’ reference to Luke vii.27 beside the piping and lamentation saying is another printed reference error. The saying occurs at Luke 7:32, parallel to Matthew 11:17. The printed references have been retained in Mead’s prose so that these corrections are distinguishable from repairs to the transcription.