The gospels are canonical and apocryphal. 4th edition, stereotypical. Zhebelev S.A.

The attention of readers is proposed to the book of an outstanding historian and philologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences S. A. Zhebelev (1867–1941), dedicated to the study of canonical and apocryphal gospels as monuments of history and literature. According to the author, the Gospels, like all works of human thought, are best comprehended from their comparison with their own or other works close to them. And only when such work on the gospels as historical and literary monuments will be performed, it will be possible to correctly evaluate them as a historical source and use them to recreate both the biography of Jesus Christ and the foundations of Christian creed.

The book is recommended for historians, theologians, religious scholars, students of historical and theological faculties, as well as a wide circle of interested readers.