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ANCIENT HISTORIES
ANCIENT JEWISH WRITINGS (
Josephus; Philo)
APOCRYPHAL ACTS & MARTYRDOM ACCOUNTS
APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS
APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE
CLASSIC PROTESTANT SERMONS
CREEDS AND CONFESSIONS
EPISTLES, SERMONS & TRACTS (1st-7th Centuries)
GNOSTIC TEXTS
MIDDLE AGE CRUSADE TEXTS (11th-13th Centuries)
SCIENCE & RELIGION TEXTS (16th-21st Centuries)
WOMEN'S VOICES IN CHRISTIANITY
 

ANCIENT JEWISH WRITINGS (Intro)
~Odes of Solomon
~Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs
~
Josephus (Intro)
         
AntiquitiesJewish Wars;
           Against Apion; & Autobiography


~Philo (Intro)
              On the Creation; Allegorical Interpretation I, II, III;
              On Cherubim; On the Birth of Abel and ... Cain;
              That the Worse is Prone to Attack the Better;
              On the Posterity of Cain; On the Giants;
              On the Unchangableness of God; On Husbandry;
              Concerning Noah's Work as a Planter; On Drunkenness;
              On the Prayers and Curses Uttered by Noah;

              On the Confusion of Languages; Migration of Abraham;
              Heir of Divine Things; On Mating with Preliminary Studies;
              On Flight & Finding; On the Change of Names; On Dreams;
              On Abraham; On Joseph; Life of Moses I, II; Decalogue;
              Special Laws I; II; III; IV; On the Virtues;
              On Rewards and Punishments; Every Good Man is Free;
              On the Contemplative Life; On the Eternity of the World;
              Flaccus; Hypothetica; Providence (Fragments I & II);
              Embassy to Gaius; Questions & Answers on Genesis I, II, III;
              Concerning the World; Fragments

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ANCIENT HISTORIES (Intro)
(
Roman Emperors of the 1st Century)

Josephus (Intro)
   
AntiquitiesJewish Wars;
    Autobiography


Marcus Aurelius
     Meditations

Procopius
     The Secret History

Suetonius (Intro) (Index)
     The Grammarians

     The Lives of the Caesars
     The Poets & Rhetoricians

Tacitus

      Annals

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CLASSIC PROTESTANT SERMONS
 Fosdick--"Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

APOCRYPHAL ACTS
     & MARTYRDOM ACCOUNTS (
Intro)

~Acts of Andrew (Intro)
~Acts of John (
Intro) (gnostic)
~Acts of Paul and Thecla (
Intro)
~Acts of Peter (
Intro)

~Acts of Peter & the 12 Apostles (Intro)
~Acts of Thomas
~Martyrdom of Perpetua (
Intro)
~Martyrdom of Polycarp

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APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE (Intro)

~Apocalypse of James (1st)
~Apocalypse of James (2nd)
~Apocalypse of Peter
~(Coptic) Apocalypse of Paul
~Apocalypse of Thomas

~
Apocryphon According to John
~Ascension of Isaiah
~Epistle of John the Evangelist

~Revelation of Paul
~Revelation of John the Theologian

~Shepherd of Hermas

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EPISTLES, SERMONS & TRACTS (Intro)

~Athenagoras of Athens (Intro)
~The Apocryphon of James

~Correspondence of Paul and Seneca

~Didache (Teaching of 12 Apostles) (Intro)
~Edict of Milan (Constantine) (
Intro)
~Epistle of the Apostles
~Epistle of Barnabas
~First Clement (to the Corinthians) (
Intro)
~Second Clement (
Intro)

~Letter of Peter to Philip (gnostic)
~Letter to Diognetus (Intro)
~Origen: On Prayer
~Papias
(fragments)

~Polycarp to the Philippians
~Shepherd of Hermas
~Ignatius
    
*To the Ephesians; the Magnesians; the Trallians;
     *the Philadelphians; the Romans; the Symrnaeans;
     *To Polycarp

~Justin Martyr (Intro)
      *Apology I & II; Dialogue with Trypho;
     *Fragments of Lost Writings; Address to the Greeks;
     *On the Sole Government of God; On Resurrection;
     *Discourse to the Greeks

~Octavius: Minucius Felix
~Tatian:
Address to the Greeks
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APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS (Intro)

~Dialogue of the Savior (gnostic)
~Diatessaron
(
Ancient harmony)
~Gospel of Bartholomew
~Gospel of the Ebionites
(gnostic)
~Gospel of James
~Gospel of Mary
(gnostic)
~Gospel of Nativity of Mary
~Gospel of Peter
~Gospel of Philip
~Gospel of Thomas
(gnostic)
~Gospel of Truth
(gnostic)

~Infancy Gospel of Thomas
~Sophia of Jesus Christ (gnostic)
                                                            
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MIDDLE AGE CRUSADER TEXTS (Intro)

Pope Urban II's Call for the Crusades
Eyewitness Accounts of First Crusade
Account of the Fall of Jerusalem (1099)

Apology of Pope John Paul II for Crusades
Easter Apology for Crusades

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WOMEN'S VOICES
Catherine Booth on Women in Ministry (
Intro)

SCIENCE & RELIGION TEXTS
Galileo's Excommunication
William Jennings Bryan "Menace of Evolution" (Intro)
"Scopes Monkey Trial"

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CLASSIC CREEDS & CONFESSIONS (Intro)

~APOSTLES' CREED (3rd-7th Centuries) (Intro)
~NICENE CREED (325 CE)

~ATHANASIAN CREED (5th Century)

~DEFINITION OF CHALCEDON (451 CE)
~COUNCIL OF ORANGE (539 CE)

~ANATHEMAS OF 2nd COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE (553 CE)
~DECLARATIONS OF 3rd COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE (681 CE)
~MARTIN LUTHER'S 95 THESES (16th Century) (
Intro)
~THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF RELIGION (16th Century) (
Intro)
~WESTMINSTER CONFESSION (16th Century) (
Intro)
~AUGSBURG CONFESSION (16th Century) (
Intro)
~CHICAGO STATEMENT ON INERRANCY (20th Century Fundamentalism)
~ARTICLES OF FAITH (Church of the Nazarene) (
Intro)
                                                                               
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GNOSTIC TEXTS (Intro)

~Acts of Andrew (Intro)
~Acts of John (
Intro)
~Authoritative Teaching
~Book of Thomas the Contender

~Dialogue of the Savior
~Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
~Gospel of the Ebionites
~Gospel of Mary
~Gospel of Thomas
~Gospel of Truth

~Melchizedek
~Sophia of Jesus Christ
~Treatise on the Resurrection

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