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Lost Christianities : the battle for Scripture and the faiths we never knew / Bart D. Ehrman.

Ehrman, Bart D. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0195141830
  • ISBN: 9780195141832
  • Physical Description: xv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- Major Christian apocrypha discussed, dates and contents -- Introduction : Recouping our losses -- pt. 1. Forgeries and discoveries -- 1. The ancient discovery of a forgery : Serapion and the Gospel of Peter -- 2. The ancient forgery of a discovery : the Acts of Paul and Thecla -- 3. The discovery of an ancient forgery : the Coptic Gospel of Thomas -- 4. The forgery of an ancient discovery? Morton Smith and the secret Gospel of Mark -- pt. 2. Heresies and orthodoxies -- 6. At polar ends of the spectrum : early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites -- 6. Christians "in the know" : the worlds of early Christian gnosticism -- 7. On the road to Nicaea : the broad swath of proto-orthodox Christianity -- pt. 3. Winners and losers -- 8. Quest for orthodoxy -- 9. Arsenal of the conflicts : polemic treatises and personal slurs -- 10. Additional weapons in the polemic arsenal : forgeries and falsifications -- 11. Invention of scripture : the formation of the proto-orthodox New Testament -- 12. Winners, losers, and the question of tolerance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject:
Apocryphal books (New Testament) > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christian heresies > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

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