The Gospel of Philip the Deacon

This work is put before the reading public purely as literature, relying
entirely upon its intrinsic merits as a narrative and probability as an
account, given in great detail, of the birth, mission, and death of the
great Prophet of Christendom, Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah foretold in
the sacred writings of Israel. The doctrinal matter it contains will
furnish the student with a further criterion of its reliability.

The reader is free to ignore, if he prefer to do so, any a priori claim
to aut...