Syriac and Arabic apocrypha (anonymous)
Anonymous apocryphal and devotional writings that survive only in Syriac, Arabic or Garshuni (Arabic written in Syriac letters) manuscripts, edited and translated for the Woodbrooke Studies.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- A Jeremiah Apocryphon (Mingana translation) Older EnglishOCR text 72 min read
- A New Life of John the Baptist (Mingana translation) Older EnglishOCR text 45 min read
- Some Uncanonical Psalms (Mingana translation) Older EnglishOCR text 8 min read
- The Lament of the Virgin (Mingana translation) Older EnglishOCR text 59 min read
- The Martyrdom of Pilate (Mingana translation) Older EnglishOCR text 72 min read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.
