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102:, a variety of apostolic canons, discussions of individuals who recant their heresy, and an investigation of heavenly entities. After a written series of questions, it is followed up with an eleven-folio collection called the 170:(Acts 1:6–7) but more extended. Proceeded after a prayer, the apostles are then informed about their appointments, to speak of "those things that are and those that are to come" according to the power of the 58:
rule in the second half of the seventh century as the Muslim rule was no longer being perceived as a temporary event causing apocalyptic tensions to dissipate. It also advocates disconnection from
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Its eschatological expectations was both simple and updated from previous Syriac apocalyptical texts of the same period and is a witness to the Syrian Christian strategy on coping with
94:. The leaves are damaged, and Harris had to reconstruct the codex as he had received it with the leaves disorganized. The codex contains a variety of documents such as letters by 501: 236:
attempts to establish their gospel as deriving from an ancient source by referring to their own translation of the work originating first from
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is completely absent from their gospel. The apostles in the Syriac author's gospel do not speak for themselves, nor are they represented by
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The title of the text is present in the manuscript and has often been associated with the second century
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Christianity and presents the author's advocacy in their own community to not have them convert to
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When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam
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in the manuscript takes up twenty-two pages, and in Harris's edition, twenty-one pages.
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The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles Together with the Apocalypses of Each One of Them
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Thomas, David Richard; Roggema, Barbara; Sala, Juan Pedro Monferrer (2009).
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Gospel of the Twelve Apostles with the Revelations of Each of Them
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Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (600-900)
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Index

Gospel of the Twelve
gospel text
canonical gospels
Acts of the Apostles
apocalypses
Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
Muslim
Judaism
Miaphysite
Islam
palaeography
Estrangelo
Jacob of Edessa
Severus of Antioch
Apocalypse of Simeon Kepha
Apocalypse of James the Apostle
Apocalypse of John the Little
Doctrine of Addai
canonical gospels
apostles
resurrection
rejection
Acts of the Apostles
Holy Spirit
revelation
ascended
apocalypses
Gospel of the Twelve
Epiphanius of Salamis
Ebionites

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