Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”
by
Dario Bullitta
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found...