The forged Sacromonte books suppressed Paul to appeal to Muslim converts

Evidence

To a certain extent, the books were a counterbalance to aspects of the canonical New Testament. In the Acts of the Apostles we have a Christianity that is Pauline, whereas in the Sacromonte texts what is striking is that Paul does not appear. Paul, of course, taught very clearly that the strict regulations concerning ritual purity and diet that Christianity had inherited from its Judaic, Semitic, past no longer applied. Among the aspects of Christian practice that distress Muslims is the fact that the formal regulation of ritual purity has been abandoned. (Jesus in the Gospels is very scathing when a Pharisee tells him he ought to have washed his hands before a meal.) Any move toward reintroducing concepts of ritual purity, etc., of disregarding Paul, would have pleased the Moriscos. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1261

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back theme of cross-cultural religious signaling and purity norms.
• BMF: The deliberate suppression of Paul from a forged sacred text to appeal to a Muslim readership resonates with the invented-supplemental-scripture structure in We, where the state rewrites origin narratives for political ends.