agraphon
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́γρᾰφον (ágraphon), ᾰ̓́γρᾰφᾰ (ágrapha), inflection of ᾰ̓́γρᾰφος (ágraphos, “unwritten, not registered”).
Noun
agraphon (plural agrapha)
- Any of the sayings of Jesus found in various ancient texts but not in the four Gospels.
- 1998, Bruce David Chilton, Craig Alan Evans, Studying the Historical Jesus, →ISBN, page 483:
- If Crossan is correct, then Jesus Research cannot make genuine and meaningful progress apart from careful study of the agrapha and apocryphal gospels. If Meier is correct, then the potential contribution of the agrapha and apocryphal gospels to Jesus Research is limited.
- 2004, Craig A. Evans, The Historical Jesus - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 219:
- Hofius further concludes that the evidence of the agrapha militates against the view that the early church freely invented dominical sayings.
- 2004, Michael J. McClymond, Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth, →ISBN, page 30:
- The agrapha, or noncanonical sayings attributed to Jesus, are probably less reliable than the non-Christian sources on the life of Jesus.
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