MLA Commons | Tony Burke | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/tonyburke/activity/ Activity feed for Tony Burke. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:14:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 eb716dd3b5ad2e6079451d38e048973d Tony Burke deposited The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation in the group Syriac Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575769/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:00:02 -0400 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e1027865c7bb9ea859322f924492ace Tony Burke deposited The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575768/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:00:01 -0400 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e1027865c7bb9ea859322f924492ace Tony Burke deposited The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575767/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:00:01 -0400 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than…[Read more]

]]> 0 4319c4e524ecc6766d2205a9a442605c Tony Burke deposited The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575766/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:00:00 -0400 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a481289209b808ee7acfd8883c3ab9a Tony Burke's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575685/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:43:34 -0400 0 2fea18f457678a5772916fc47c455db9 Tony Burke deposited The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575683/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:40:55 -0400 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms. The most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than…[Read more]

]]> 0 c154bfcc412795debd90f8e963f2bb9a Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569192/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:01:29 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 c154bfcc412795debd90f8e963f2bb9a Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569191/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:01:29 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc8a3a2d7188c650ac0b403641b8161f Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569190/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:01:27 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc8a3a2d7188c650ac0b403641b8161f Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569189/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:01:27 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc8a3a2d7188c650ac0b403641b8161f Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569188/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:01:27 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd49be60b9bc304cd86c5837d08b3ab2 Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569172/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:24 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd49be60b9bc304cd86c5837d08b3ab2 Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569171/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:24 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 90bd5e76dff1bed54305949723ca8541 Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569170/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:21 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 90bd5e76dff1bed54305949723ca8541 Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569169/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:21 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fa7767b005dfbd253d518e84d1610f6 Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569168/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:20 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ebbe51c2dddf75f1f283e2254f7468c Tony Burke deposited New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Vol. 1 in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569157/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ebbe51c2dddf75f1f283e2254f7468c Tony Burke deposited New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Vol. 1 in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569156/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ebbe51c2dddf75f1f283e2254f7468c Tony Burke deposited New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Vol. 1 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569155/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6cc08565009dff4e3ba6c7851f56087 Tony Burke deposited Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569149/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:03 -0400 In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6cc08565009dff4e3ba6c7851f56087 Tony Burke deposited Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569148/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:03 -0400 In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6cc08565009dff4e3ba6c7851f56087 Tony Burke deposited Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate in the group Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569147/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:03 -0400 In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and…[Read more]

]]> 0 84a400d868ccc59737c12f6057640372 Tony Burke deposited Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569146/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:00:02 -0400 In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d39f7f3573ecec844c06ec0979fca70 Tony Burke's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568922/ Wed, 03 May 2017 11:38:22 -0400 0 0da0d5dbd961b7ab8872fbba05b8675d Tony Burke deposited Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 (Introduction and Table of Contents). https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568921/ Wed, 03 May 2017 11:37:03 -0400 “Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives” features papers presented at the second York Christian Apocrypha Symposium held in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, Canada. The papers focus on what makes North American Christian Apocrypha scholarship unique, on what has come to def…[Read more]

]]> 0 df12f361962b9fc0327464b63580f9aa Tony Burke's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568241/ Mon, 01 May 2017 20:31:26 -0400 0 a587285b3c3dd05530318812aab0e21f Tony Burke deposited Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016 (Introduction and Table of Contents). https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568239/ Mon, 01 May 2017 20:30:19 -0400 Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cae03d9a8f74359bca6fcf09f39c3f6 Tony Burke deposited Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567939/ Mon, 01 May 2017 11:32:33 -0400 In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and…[Read more]

]]> 0 646aa62a29608dded3ce724e1a7da5e2 Tony Burke deposited New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Vol. 1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567934/ Mon, 01 May 2017 11:13:55 -0400 This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba08b6e10c855c8fd4ff3c51d655f9fd Tony Burke's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567931/ Mon, 01 May 2017 10:53:51 -0400 0 7a1e62d6b6c1c57608e93d977720fa9f Tony Burke's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567860/ Mon, 01 May 2017 03:05:57 -0400 0 12c540777c76d4ce758f90a82b471d07 Tony Burke changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567456/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:13:42 -0400 0 fecef3cca565eb0fc684e3b7bebfe891 Tony Burke changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567455/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:12:38 -0400 0