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

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رقم التسجيلة 2536
نوع المادة book
ردمك 0195141830
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BS2840.E47

المؤلف Ehrman, Bart D

العنوان Lost Christianities : the battle for Scripture and the faiths we never knew / Bart D. Ehrman
بيانات النشر New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
الوصف المادي xv, 294 p : 24 cm ; ill
ملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index

المحتويات / النص

Introduction: Recouping our Losses 1 PART ONE: Forgeries and Discoveries 9 1 The Ancient Discovery of a Forgery: Serapion and the Gospel of Peter 13 2 The Ancient Forgery of a Discovery: The Acts of Paul and Thecla 29 3 The Discovery of an Ancient Forgery: The Coptic Gospel of Thomas 47 4 The Forgery of an Ancient Discovery? Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark 67 PART TWO: Heresies and Orthodoxies 91 5 At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites 95 6 Christians "In the Know": The Worlds of Early Christian Gnosticism 113 7 On the Road to Nicaea: The Broad Swath of Proto-orthodox Christianity 135 PART THREE: Winners and Losers 159 8 The Quest for Orthodoxy 163 9 The Arsenal of the Conflicts: Polemical Treatises and Personal Slurs 181 10 Additional Weapons in the Polemical Arsenal: Forgeries and Falsifications 203 11 The Invention of Scripture: The Formation of the Proto-orthodox New Testament 229 12 Winners, Losers, and the Question of Tolerance 247

المستخلص

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 Jesus's own followers. Modern archaeological work has recovered a number of key texts, and as Ehrman shows, these spectacular discoveries reveal religious diversity that says much about the ways in which history gets written by the winners. Ehrman's discussion ranges from considerations of various "lost scriptures"--including forged gospels supposedly written by Simon Peter, Jesus's closest disciple, and Judas Thomas, Jesus's alleged twin brother--to the disparate beliefs of such groups as the Jewish-Christian Ebionites, the anti-Jewish Marcionites, and various "Gnostic" sects. Ehrman examines in depth the battles that raged between "proto-orthodox Christians"-- those who eventually compiled the canonical books of the New Testament and standardized Christian belief--and the groups they denounced as heretics and ultimately overcame. Scrupulously researched and lucidly written, Lost Christianities is an eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its views prevail.

المواضيع Apocryphal books (New Testament) - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Heresies, Christian - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600