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The Church Fathers · c. 140–170

The Letter of the Apostles

Epistula Apostolorum

Anonymous

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What it is

A post-resurrection dialogue in which the risen Christ answers the eleven, written in the form the Gnostics favoured but arguing hard for a real body and a real resurrection.

Why it lasted

A rare orthodox text that fights Gnosticism by borrowing its genre rather than denouncing it.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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