Franz Blei Das Evangelium des Apollonios

<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 62, ff. [2], pp. 6. Quarter calf. Gilded spine. Ex libris Leopold Strauss. Title page with red ruled border. "Nachwort des Herausgebers" at end signed by Franz Blei.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A fabricated gospel text, claimed by Blei in his learned afterword to derive from illusory Greek manuscripts (M. Dibelius, A fresh approach to the New Testament and early Christian literature. London, 1936, p. 94). Not in E. J. Goodspeed (Modern Apocrypha. Boston, 1956) or P. Beskow (Strange tales about Jesus. Philadelphia, 1985); perhaps more a fantasy than a forgery.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family