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There are more than 300 'apocryphal' texts excluded from the Biblical canon. This Live Science article notes the first English translations of some of these texts. If I understand correctly this article covers the 29 texts in the 2020 book New Testament Apocrypha More Noncanonical Scriptures (Volume 2) by Tony Burke:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Apocrypha-Noncanonical-Scriptures/dp/0802872905
These texts include stories of demons and wizards - not the typical Biblical fare.
FULL STORY (With Multiple Examples):
https://www.livescience.com/translated-christian-texts-wizards-demons.html
https://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Apocrypha-Noncanonical-Scriptures/dp/0802872905
These texts include stories of demons and wizards - not the typical Biblical fare.
Wizard battles and demon circles revealed in newly translated Christian texts
Have you ever heard the story of a wizard battle that supposedly took place when an early church was constructed? Or how about the story of a border guard who defied King Herod's orders and spared Jesus' life? Scholars have now translated these and other "apocryphal" Christian texts (stories not told in the canonical bible) into English for the first time.
More than 300 Christian apocryphal texts are known to exist, Tony Burke, a professor of early Christianity at York University in Toronto, Canada, wrote in the book he edited "New Testament Apocrypha More Noncanonical Scriptures (Volume 2)" (Eerdmans, 2020). "Apocryphal texts were integral to the spiritual lives of Christians long after the apparent closing of the canon and that the calls to avoid and even destroy such literature were not always effective" wrote Burke.
Ancient Christians often debated which texts told the truth about Jesus and which did not. By the end of the fourth century the church had 'canonized' the texts which they thought were accurate and included them in the bible. ...
FULL STORY (With Multiple Examples):
https://www.livescience.com/translated-christian-texts-wizards-demons.html