A Penguin Paragraph: The Apocryphal Gospels.

Books  More orthodox than expected.  Until now, these books seemed the stuff of sensationalist imported documentaries broadcast on Channel 5 around Easter time, featuring fringe talking heads spliced with trailer footage from a Dan Brown adaptation.  Instead, as the introduction explains, these are rarely "subversive texts” offering a dramatically different account to the sacred gospels.  If anything they evoke modern web culture with most of the writing so reliant on Matthew, Mark, Luke and John they’re practically fan fiction and in the likes of The Questions of Bartholomew, with a Mary Sue figure.  The ancient church leaders were literal gatekeepers, choosing how God should be worshipped.  The aphorisms in the Lots of Mary read like an inspirational Instagram account.  The so-called Jewish Anti-Gospel is essentially a Cinema Sins for the Bible.  Oh and yes, there is pr0n, Epiphanius’ quotation from the Questions in the Greater Questions of Mary sees to that.