How Long to Read The So-Called Agrapha

How Long Does it Take to Read The So-Called Agrapha?

It takes the average reader and 52 minutes to read The So-Called Agrapha by James Hardy Ropes

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To know a little more of the life of Christ, whether of his works or words, than the tradition embodied in the gospels tells has from early times been the eager desire of men. Apocryphal books almost without number have one after another held the attention of great numbers of Christians, only to be recognized in the end as disappointing fictions. One line of serious investigation, however, has been followed persistently and hopefully-the search for scattered sayings of the Lord preserved outside of the canonical gospels, the so-called Agrapha. One of these is familar to all, the word quoted in Paul's speech at Miletus, Acts 20:35, and was early noticed. That the writings of the Fathers contain others which may have claims to genuineness was also seen centuries ago, and the great patristic editors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries collected in their notes much valuable material bearing on the subject. Collections of the sayings themselves were also made, and under various names (among which that of "Agrapha" seems first to occur in 1776) have been current ever since Grabe published in 1698 in his Spicilegium eleven Dicta Jesu Christi quæ in IV. Evangeliis non extant. Of recent collections of the more important Agrapha, R. Hofmann's, in his Leben Jesu nach den Apokryphen, Westcott's, in his Introduction to the Study of the Gospels, and Schaff's, in the first volume of his History of the Christian Church, are easily accessible and convenient examples. These and similar collections have generally contained from twenty to thirty sayings, and have been largely dependent on the lists of Grabe and Fabricius.It has long been clear that such collections as these and such special investigations of Agrapha as are to be found in Hilgenfeld's Novum Testamentum extra canonem receptum, Nicholson's The Gospel according to the Hebrews, and Zahn's Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons had only prepared the way for an exhaustive collection and investigation of the material relating to the subject. This was undertaken by Dr. Alfred Resch, in his Agrapha: Aussercanonische Evangelienfragmente in möglichster Vollständigkeit zusammengestellt und quellenkritisch untersucht, published in 1889 in volume V of von Gebhardt and Harnack's Texte und Untersuchungen. Resch has carried on this and similar researches in the interest of his theory of the origin of the synoptic gospels. He holds to an original Hebrew (not Aramaic) gospel, consisting chiefly of a report of sayings of Jesus, written by the apostle Matthew, which all three synoptic evangelists largely used, each making his own translation, and which was also used by Paul and the other New Testament writers. Through this solution of the synoptic problem he has been led on to the view that the differences from the ordinary text of the gospels exhibited by patristic references to the life and sayings of our Lord are to be explained by the same original Hebrew gospel, which, though never mentioned, yet persisted into late times, and was consulted and valued by ecclesiastical writers down to the fifth century, if not later.This theory naturally sharpened Resch's eye greatly for what would be after all the only convincing proof that he could offer for his theory, namely, passages quoted by the New Testament writers or the Fathers, but not found in the canonical gospels and naturally to be ascribed to this Hebrew gospel. The peculiarities of patristic quotations of well-known sayings can be accounted for, as he himself saw, by the assumption of variations in the text of our gospels or of inexact quotation, but the existence of a considerable number of sayings of Jesus not drawn from the gospels might be a strong argument for the source which Resch believes in. This argument would be strengthened if it could be made plausible that various passages in the New Testament epistles also are really dependent on sayings of Jesus which have been preserved outside of the canonical gospels.

How long is The So-Called Agrapha?

The So-Called Agrapha by James Hardy Ropes is 52 pages long, and a total of 13,104 words.

This makes it 18% the length of the average book. It also has 16% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The So-Called Agrapha Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 11 minutes to read The So-Called Agrapha aloud.

What Reading Level is The So-Called Agrapha?

The So-Called Agrapha is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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