Banned From The Bible

Banned From The Bible

Banned From The Bible

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This History Channel documentary deals with a raft of extra-canonical texts that did not make it into the Old Testament. Gnostic, heretical, the products of forgery or ancient midrash - these stories circulated for centuries, were lost, rediscovered, or survived in fragmentary forms. Though they feature characters and events we know from today's bible, each was deemed unfit for inclusion in canon. We ask what made these texts so problematic. Some of today's best-known scholars and authors examine writings left out the Old Testament, explaining the myriad reasons behind their exclusion from the bible.