"THE MAGDALENE GOSPEL:
A Journey Behind the New Testament", by Yuri Kuchinsky. Roots Publishing, Toronto, 2002
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Table
of Contents
Foreword .....9
PART I *** THE INTRODUCTION
1. One Gospel that Remained Uncensored
.....11
PART II *** THE HIJACKING AND THE
COVER-UP: Some Early Christian History
2. Early Gospels, Their Historical Background, & Christian
Antisemitism .....31
3. The Two Wars Against the Jews .....39
4. The Big Cover-up .....46
5. Split Personality? .....56
6. Alfred Loisy, and How I came to Discover the Magdalene Gospel .....67
7. The Fourteenthers: Celebrating Christian Passover .....78
8. Jews, Samaritans, and Christians
.....94
9. The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew
.....103
PART III *** EXPLORING THE MAGDALENE
GOSPEL: Some Textual Comparisons
10. General Character Of the Text
.....116
11. Comparison With Canonical Texts
.....126
12. "Woman at the Well"
.....129
13. Women in the Magdalene Gospel .....133
14. John's Disciples Visit Jesus
.....136
15. Magdalene Text is More Primitive than the Canonical Texts .....147
16. Jesus and His Family .....166
17. Parable of a Rich Man, and the "Signs of the Times" .....169
18. Disciples of John and of Jesus Get Together .....172
19. "The Canaanite Woman" .....176
20. "The Dishonest Steward" .....179
21. "Rich Man and a Leper" .....185
22. Canonical "Imponderability" & Why this Text is
Earlier .....188
PART IV *** TRUTH AND FICTION:
Which Text of the Bible?
23. The Synoptic Problem, and the Earliest Gospel Texts .....195
24. The Strange Game of Textual Criticism .....203
25. "Son of Man" Passages .....211
26. The Anointing Stories: Looking
for the Source Text .....232
PART V *** THE HISTORICAL JESUS
27. Jesus: an Enigmatic Figure .....247
28. Was Jesus Apocalyptic? .....250
29. The Gospel of Thomas .....256
30. Dating Thomas and "Q" .....262
31. Jesus the Baptist .....271
32. "Jesus the Magician": Four Big Flip-flops of Biblical
Historians .....276
33. The Jesus "Mythicists" vs. the Mainstream .....280
34. The Historical Paul, or Angelology .....289
PART VI *** HIDING BEHIND A SCREEN:
Diatessaron, or the Gospel According to the Hebrews?
35. The Earliest Gospel to Have Been Widely Published .....295
36. Diatessaron and New Testament Gospels .....315
37. The Final Christian Canon of Four .....335
38. Kosher Scots, or the Celtic Church Cover-up .....340
39. Translating the Magdalene Gospel .....355
PART VII *** THE MAGDALENE GOSPEL
The Text of the Gospel .....366
Notes and Abbreviations .....475
APPENDICES:
Samples of the Original Text (Chapters
1 & 33) .....478
The Historical Development of the Gospels (Chart) .....482
Bibliography .....485