The Gospel (Questions) of Bartholomew

Attributed to the apostle Bartholomew; author unknown. The Questions of Bartholomew survives in Greek, Latin and Slavonic, each in a different and probably not original form, and is thought to have been composed in the 3rd century AD or a little later. In a series of dialogues between the apostles and the risen Christ it treats Christ's descent into Hades and the rescue of Adam, Mary's account of the Annunciation, the sight of the abyss, the devil called up and made to confess how he fell and how he tempts, and the gravest sins. This translation follows James's composite text, kept in his five parts.