| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 294 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction, recouping our losses -- Forgeries and discoveries: Ancient discovery of a forgery, Serapion and the Gospel of Peter; Ancient forgery of a discovery, the Acts of Paul and Thecla; Discovery of an ancient forgery, the Coptic Gospel of Thomas; 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: Quest for orthodoxy; Arsenal of the conflicts, polemic treatises and personal slurs; Additional weapons in the polemic arsenal, forgeries and falsifications; Invention of scripture, the formation of the proto-orthodox New Testament; Winners, losers, and the question of tolerance. |
| Summary |
Describes how most forms of early Christianity, and the sacred writings they adhered to, came to be suppressed, proscribed, destroyed - in one way or another lost. This work also tells the story of how the canon of the New Testament became the official, orthodox and sacred text for Christianity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Apocryphal books (New Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Apocryphal books (New Testament) |
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Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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| Chronological Term |
30-600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195141830 (DLC) 2003053097 (OCoLC)52335003 |
| ISBN |
0195184149 (electronic book) |
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9780195184143 (electronic book) |
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0195141830 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195141832 (alkaline paper) |
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1280481684 |
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9781280481680 |
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