Month: November 2025

The SBL Annual Meeting presents an ideal opportunity to check out new books on Christian apocrypha, and at substantial discounts. As you make your way through the publishers’ exhibition, keep an eye out for these publications. If there is a book missing in the list, please pass along the details.

Brepols

Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky. Representations of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period (CATALOG).

Cambridge University Press

Benjamin De Vos. The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition (CATALOG).

Richard Flower. The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy (CATALOG).

 

M. David Litwa. The Secret Book of John (CATALOG).

Shaily Patel. Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature (CATALOG).

Francis Watson. The Gospel of Truth (CATALOG).

Eerdmans

James R. Davila and Richard Bauckham, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Vol. 2 (CATALOG).

Fortress

M. David Litwa. Marcion: The Gospel of a Wholly Good God (CATALOG).

Yosuf Y. Mirza. The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries (CATALOG).

Tobias Nicklas and Janet E. Spittler. Reading Christian Apocrypha: Tradition, Interpretation, Practice (CATALOG).

Harvard University Press

Adam Bremer-McCollum. The Pearl Song (also open access; CATALOG).

McGill-Queens University Press

Gregory Fewster. The Authentic Paul: Critical Scholarship and the Making of the Christian Book (CATALOG).

Oxford University Press

Michael J. Kruger. Miniature Codices in Early Christianity (CATALOG).

Shaily Patel. Smoke and Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early …

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs from November 22 to 25 in Boston. The following is a list of all the sessions and individual presentations that focus on Christian Apocrypha.

1. Christian Apocrypha Sessions

S22-235 The Apocrypha of Symeon Metaphrastes, Part 1 (1:00 PM to 3:30 PM)
In the tenth century, Symeon Metaphrastes created an expansive menologion collecting lives of saints for reading in the monasteries. Symeon’s menologion is a mix of rewritten and newly-written texts. Fifteen of them focus on the lives of apostles and other first-century figures. The goal of the Apocrypha of Symeon Metaphrastes Project is to prepare English translations of this corpus for a volume to be published in 2027. Leading up to that publication, contributors to the project will present their preliminary work at the SBL in 2025 and 2026 and at a workshop to be hosted by the Beyond Canon Project in Regensburg in the summer of 2026. The first set of presentations are the following:

“The Byzantine Rewriter Symeon Metaphrastes and the Apocrypha of Symeon Metaphrastes Project” by Christian Høgel, Lunds universitet

Hypomnema on John, Son of Zebedee (ECCA 191; CANT 221), by Janet Spittler, University of Virginia
Martyrdom of Longinus the Centurion (ECCA 730), by Nathan Hardy and Kelly Holob, University of Chicago
Hypomnema on Timothy (ECCA 928; CANT 296), by Scott Robertson, Projekt Beyond Canon, Universität Regensburg
Hypomnema on Matthew (ECCA 768; CANT 271), by Tony Burke, York University

S 22-307 Christian Apocrypha Section and Religious …