Talk:The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

Basic Bibliographic Info?
Authors/Editors, publisher, etc.? --75.133.166.19 (talk) 08:30, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I have an original copy of the book " The Lost Book of the Bible printed in 1926. If interested contact me by e-mail: wshcopace@aol.com. 2601:782:380:450:655E:E451:9F48:A7B9 (talk) 03:04, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

¶ This book got some comment in Goodspeed's Modern Apocrypha, but otherwise seems not have attracted any scholarly attention, so I provided some background comment including refs to the Apostolic Fathers - virtually the only portion of the book with any usefulness - except that the 1693 text used is severely defective by modern standards.Sussmanbern (talk) 01:01, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Protoevangelion of James?
Protoevangelion now just redirects to New Testament apocrypha. I'm wondering if the second book in here is actually Protoevangelion of James, but don't have the information here to verify. Heptazane (talk) 18:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes it is. Koro Neil (talk) 13:27, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Book of Sophia ?
Is there such a missing bible text ?--176.12.107.139 (talk) 17:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Rutherford Hayes Platt's longer history with this work?
The Internet Archive contains a text named The Lost Books of the Bible. This was copyrighted in 1926 by Alpha House, Inc. - which is/was apparently located in New York (rather than the Cleveland of the main article).

The 1926 Internet Archive volume's introduction was written by a Dr Frank Crane; the preface, by "R.H.P.,Jr.".

I can see nothing further to identify the 1926 prefacer, but if the 1963 preface was written by someone named Rutherford Hayes Platt (who refers to a first publication in 1926, but as written in this article is discussing the dual work) then I suggest that at the very least there is a strong possibility of a relationship between the two prefacers - who may easily be one.

Is someone with the later publication able to comment on this at all? That is, there are two questions:


 * 1) Does the reference to 1926 in section 1 of this article refer to a publication of the combined work, or to a publication of the work linked above?
 * 2) Is it possible to identify whether the R.H.P.,Jr. of 1926 is the same person as, or is related to, 1963's Rutherford Hayes Platt?

I am sure that keen Wikipedians will be more than up to the task of investigating these potential links further. Ambiguosity (talk) 09:44, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Ambiguosity You do know that's not a true first edition. Whoever uploaded that book most likely didn't want to include the Forgotten Books of Eden. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 11:32, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * JudeccaXIIIThat is why I mentioned - hmm - intended to mention (and may have trimmed it as irrelevant to this issue) that the Internet Archive document was a fourth edition (of that particular publication - given the material being published, there were presumably many editions before that one). The purpose of my post here was to note certain similarities, and from that seek information that others may be able to bring to this article. I'm not sure how your comment relates at all to my questions - which intended to seek further information that may in turn improve this article down whose rabbit hole I stumbled upon while pursuing 'other stuff'.


 * For instance, an individual who owns the 1963 edition may be able to find in the preface or in other introductory text who the 1926 RHP, Jr was.


 * Please feel free to explain your comment further if you feel that there is something I have missed in it. Ambiguosity (talk) 14:57, 4 September 2017 (UTC)