Lost Christianities The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

Name: Lost Christianities The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
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ISBN: 9780195182491

ISBN-10: 0195182499

ISBN-13: 9780195182491

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bart D. Ehrman

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The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 9.25" wide x 5.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated from Wheaton College in 1978. He earned his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and has taught at Rutgers University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor. He has published more than 20 scholarly and popular books, including three New York Times bestsellers, plus numerous articles and book reviews.



Preface


Major Christian Apocrypha Discussed, Dates and Contents


Introduction: Recouping our Losses



Forgeries and Discoveries



The Ancient Discovery of a Forgery: Serapion and the Gospel of Peter



The Ancient Forgery of a Discovery: The Acts of Paul and Thecla



The Discovery of an Ancient Forgery: The Coptic Gospel of Thomas



The Forgery of an Ancient Discovery? Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark



Heresies and Orthodoxies



At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites



Christians "In the Know": The Worlds of Early Christian Gnosticism



On the Road to Nicaea: The Broad Swath of Proto-orthodox Christianity



Winners and Losers



The Quest for Orthodoxy



The Arsenal of the Conflicts: Polemical Treatises and Personal Slurs



Additional Weapons in the Polemical Arsenal: Forgeries and Falsifications



The Invention of Scripture: The Formation of the Proto-orthodox New Testament



Winners, Losers, and the Question of Tolerance


Notes


Bibliography