In the last session of Theology and Religion with J.D. Reiner, we discussed the canonical sources that refer to Jesus' burial, that is, the places within the New Testament that talk about how Joseph entombed Jesus. Those sources were 1 Corinthians and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Today, we will cover three of the earliest sources from outside the New Testament, which are the Gospel of Peter, the Secret Book of James, and the Epistula Apostolorum.
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Footnotes
Peter Kirby, "The Gospel of Peter," Early Christian Writings, accessed June 1, 2021. http://earlychristianwritings.com/gos....
See the translation found in Raymond E. Brown, The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives, 2 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1994), 1318.
For a discussion of this book, see Helmut Koester, Ancient Christian Gospels (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1990), 187-200; See also Peter Kirby, "The Secret Book of James," Early Christian Writings, accessed June 1, 2021. http://earlychristianwritings.com/sec....
"Secret Book of James," trans. Francis E. Williams, in The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. James M. Robinson (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990), 31-32.
Peter Kirby, "Epistula Apostolorum," Early Christian Writings, accessed June 1, 2021. http://earlychristianwritings.com/apo....
For the whole translation, see "Epistle of the Apostles," trans. Montague Rhode James, in The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), 485-503.