Несколько замечаний о необычной славянской редакции "Видения апостола Павла" из рукописных cобраний в Польше... by Ян Страдомский, Мария Иванова

“…The apocryphal Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostle belongs to the group of early-Christian texts which exerted significant impact on people’s perception of the nether world and the Last Judgment. …”
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Las Advertencias de Almansa y Mendoza, el «apócrifo correspondiente» de Góngora by Begoña López Bueno

“…From the analysis of the relationship between Góngora and Almansa, this article demonstrates that the poet had serious objections towards his «apocryphal correspondence», as he called Almansa due to a «long letter» written by him and received by Góngora in the summer of 1614, which is proposed to be the Advertencias in the present work. …”
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Transreligious Perspectives on Purity in The Earlier Deeds of The Apostles by Marianna Cerno

“…Initially conceived as a research on the concept of purity and the related commonplaces in Latin hagiography prior to the year 1000, the present paper investigates three of the so-called apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, the only hagiographies containing useful data on the proposed topic. …”
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Apokryficzny "Dialogus Iohannis cum Iesu" (CApNT 27) jako gnostycka reinterpretacja dziejów patriarchów i komentarz do Hbr 7, 3 by Rafał Zarzeczny

“… This article contains Polish translation and commentary to an apocryphal Gnostic text known as Dialogus Johannis cum Iesu (CApNT 27). …”
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Współczesna apokryficzność. Próba kulturoznawczej analizy zjawiska by Małgorzata Jankowska

“…Many scholars have noticed that it is not possible to point to clear and obvious criteria that would allow us to assign a given text to the category of apocryphal writings. Most typologies of texts which are epistemologically valuable and which help scholars to identify certain features of apocryphal writings do not take into consideration the cultural qualities of non-canonical, unorthodox narratives. …”
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XAIPE MAPIA annunciation imagery in the making by Lidova, M

“…This change reveals not only the growing cult of Mary, but also the great role played by the apocryphal sources in the creation of the visual ”texture” of narrative compositions connected to the Virgin. …”

The Slavonic-Russian Pseudepigraphon Jacob’s Blessing to His Sons: Some Textological and Linguistic Observations by Alexander I. Grishchenko

“…This article demonstrates the apocryphal character of Jacob’s Blessing to His Sons (based on Gn 49), which is known according to the Palaea Interpretata. …”
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SACRED PROTECTORS IN THE OLD REALM OF ROMANIAN IMAGINATION – SAINT PARASCHEVA by Laura Bădescu

“…The passage of this character from canonical to apocryphal literature is part of a transfer facilitated by the absence of distinctions between genres in ancient times. …”
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"Only what you can't predict will happen. Otherwise it doesn't make sense. " by Gordana Gorunović

“… Sasa Nedeljkovic, Without Passion. Apocryphal practicum for the use of autoreflexive approach in anthropological research of Gnostic practice. …”
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Hutchinson’s tree by Enrico Bonatti

“…"There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of the distinguished British biologist, J.B.S. …”
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De matronas, disciplinas y otras galanterías: anecdotario libertino en las correspondencias apócrifas de prostitutas by Juan Jiménez Salcedo

“…Anecdote is recurrent in the libertine lit-erature at the end of the 18th century, espe-cially in the apocryphal correspondences of prostitutes. It constitutes an ironical and implacable way of presenting sexual prac-tices that prostitutes would experience.…”
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The Byzantine apocalyptic tradition a fourteenth-century Serbian version of the Apocalypse of Anastasia by Marjanović-Dušanić Smilja

“…These texts belong to various genres of religious prose and are usually assembled in apocryphal collections about journeys to the other world. …”
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"Tue einer Fremden nicht Gewalt an, tue nicht der Magd Gottes Gewalt an!" (ActThecl 26). Frühchristliches Martyrium und Realgeschichte der Gewalt by Veronika Tropper

“…The Acts of Thecla, as part of the apocryphal Acts of Paul, present to us two re­ports of a woman’s martyrdom. …”
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The lucid interval before death by Wilson I B. Onuigbo

“…This study reviews the phenomenon from historical, statistical, cross-cultural, and apocryphal perspectives. Lucidity before death is an intriguing facet of the dying process. …”
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Faryzeusze i saduceusze wobec zmartwychwstania by Mirosław Stanisław Wróbel

“…First he describes the motives and the nature of Pharisaic faith in resurrection in the context of Old Testament, Josephus Flavius sources, and Apocryphal Literature. Then he shows the views of Sadducees who rejected the reality of life after death. …”
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Saint Sisinnius in the Twilight Zone of Oral Literature<br>Sveti Sisin v somraku ustnega slovstva</br> by Mirjana Detelić

“…Sisinnius’ legend and apocryphal prayer for children and parents health, especially against fever. …”
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La infancia de Jesús en la literatura medieval española by María Eugenia Díaz Tena

“…We tried to gather the largest possible number of texts belonging to different genres of our medieval literature narrating or refer to passages in the childhood of Jesus and the Bible or the apocryphal gospels are the sources. Our work is organized for centuries, although the conclusions are clear differences in the treatment of this issue for centuries and genres.…”
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Qualche nota sui sermoni e sugli ammaestramenti antico-russi contro il paganesimo e i loro possibili rapporti con la letteratura apocrifa e gli scritti antibogomili<br>Nekotorye za... by Simonetta Simi

“…This article is based on the examination of ancient Russian documents, »slova i poučenija, napravlennye protiv jazyčestva«, and their relationships with the apocryphal, Bogomil and antibogomil literature.…”
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Reception of the Greek Story of Melchizedek in Syriac Christian Tradition by Minov, S

“…For the first time the original Syriac text, English translation and discussion of three different witnesses to this apocryphal work in Syriac is provided, namely (1) the abbreviated translation of the Story incorporated into Catena Severi (ninth century), (2) the Pseudo-Athanasian excerpt found in ms. …”

Speaking quotations in interpretative context: the prophets' discourse in the netherworld as a special type of biblical exegesis by Tóth, P

“…The following paper is a sort of case study which aims to address the very delicate problem of the so-called ‘apocryphicity’ and attempts to find answer to the question why a text preserving an extra-biblical narrative, dialogue or motive has been and still is regarded as apocryphal for and why others, containing almost the same features, are completely left out of the so-to-say ‘canon’ of the apocrypha.…”