Title: [Der Benan-Brief. Dritter Band. Erklärung des Textes bis zum Tode Jesu.] Leben und Kultur zur Zeit Christi von Ernst Edler von der Planitz. Text-Erklärung des Benan-Briefes. Erster Teil
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Third of 5 volumes in small 8vo. pp. 99, [49]. Cloth. Illustrated. Set composed of various editions: first volume is third edition, other volumes are second editions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A forgery by Ernst von der Planitz (1857-1935), first published in 1910 in five small volumes of text; two further volumes (Jesus von Anu and Die Esel-Anbetung der ersten Christen) appeared in 1920. The Benanbrief was a supposed letter of an Egyptian priest who befriended Jesus in his youth and reported subsequently on the court and literary culture of Rome. Carl Schmidt definitively dismissed the work in Der Benanbrief: eine moderne Leben-Jesu-Fälschung (Leipzig, 1921, see Bib# 629333 /Fr# 1416 in this collection). See E.J. Goodspeed, Modern Apocrypha. Boston, 1956. pp. 50-57.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103033" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>