The Apocryphal New Testament

William Hone’s Apocryphal New Testament—although controversial upon publication—became a key text on the Apocrypha in the English-speaking world of the nineteenth century. The texts were adapted from Jeremiah Jones’s 1726 translation of the Apocrypha and William Wake’s 1693 translation of the Shepherd of Hermes and the Apostolic Fathers. Hone’s volume went through numerous reprintings, and established itself as an important work on the New Testament Apocrypha.