The Book of the Resurrection of Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle

Presented as Bartholomew's own account, written for his son Thaddaeus, of what he saw at the resurrection: Death and his six sons coming to the tomb and the dead Christ laughing at them, the harrowing of Amente (the underworld), the cursing of Judas, the women at the garden of the gardener Philogenes, Christ blessing His mother, the hymns of the angels at Adam's forgiveness, the Father blessing the Apostles, and Thomas raising his son Siophanes before meeting the risen Lord. A Coptic (Egyptian) work, not the Greek Questions of Bartholomew; usually dated to the 5th or 6th century AD. This is E.A. Wallis Budge's translation (1913) of British Museum MS. Oriental 6804, which has lost its first five leaves, so it opens mid-sentence, and whose surviving leaves are torn in places. Chapter numbers are the manuscript's leaves (Budge's "Fol."), each paragraph is a verse. Where lines are lost Budge printed dots, shown here as "…"; where he replaced lost lines with his own summary, the summary is left out and the next paragraph opens with "[…]". Square brackets are his restorations. Not part of any church's canon.