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Banned Books Week 2009!
look out! Ninjas!:
That and the supposed 'other chapters' that were supposedly omitted because they weren't popular with the editors.
Border Reiver:
Those would be parts of the New Testament - the other gospels weren't banned so much as not included in the official version, and given the copying technology of the time (ie. copying the book out by hand) just faded away.
Wasn't a question of those gospels being "unpopular" - those gospels were deemed as being outside of the message decided on by the Council of Nicea and so weren't included in the official version being touted by the Roman Empire. The Empire was looking for ways to keep itself politically unified and keeping a single message in a religion was one of the ways - less division over who had the "right" interpretation, etc.
Not quite the same as being banned, but if there are only a few copies hanging around before, and they don't get copied out as often they tend to decay with the passage of time and the effect is similar.
Reed:
Well if we're going to talk about banned religious texts it is probably necessary to point out Islam's Satanic Verses.
Ballard:
Ha, and on the topic of banned books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses
Reed:
I completely missed that when I was writing the post. I guess I just have an uncanny ability to subconsciously bring threads back to their original point.
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