Introduction / Francis Watson, Sarah Parkhouse -- Praeparatio evangelica in early Christian Gospels / Simon Gathercole -- Prophets, priests, and kings : Old Testament figures in Marcion's Gospel and Luke / Dieter T. Roth -- The Protevangelium of James and the creative rewriting of Matthew and Luke / Mark Goodacre -- Jesus' body : Christology and soteriology in the body-metaphors of the Gospel of Philip / Christine Jacobi -- Rejection at Nazareth in the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke--and Tatian / Matthew R. Crawford -- Jesus and Judaism : inside or outside? The Gospel of John, the Egerton Gospel, and the spectrum of ancient Christian voices / Tobias Nicklas -- Women in the Gospels of Mark and Mary / Christopher Tuckett -- 'My power, power, you have left me' : Christology in the Gospel of Peter / Heike Omerzu -- A Gospel of the eleven : the Epistula Apostolorum and the Johannine tradition / Francis Watson -- Matter and the soul : the bipartite eschatology of the Gospel of Mary / Sarah Parkhouse -- Jesus and early Christian identity formation : reflections on the significance of the Jesus figure in early Christian Gospels / Jens SchrΓΆter.;This collection argues that scholarship should focus on the entire field of early Christian gospel literature rather than limiting attention to the canonical four. Each contributor thematically compares canonical and non-canonical gospels.