03918nam 22006974 450 991095381300332120251116204555.00-19-773998-90-19-518414-91-280-48168-40-19-972712-010.1093/oso/9780195141832.001.0001(CKB)2550000001204450(SSID)ssj0000194354(PQKBManifestationID)11180357(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194354(PQKBWorkID)10231537(PQKB)10319808(Au-PeEL)EBL280931(CaPaEBR)ebr10084847(CaONFJC)MIL48168(OCoLC)252579399(MiAaPQ)EBC280931(OCoLC)1406788654(StDuBDS)9780197739983(MiAaPQ)EBC5751173(BIP)11259117(EXLCZ)99255000000120445020030506e20232003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLost Christianities the battles for Scripture and the faiths we never knew /Bart D. EhrmanNew York :Oxford University Press,2023.xv, 294 p. illOxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2003.0-19-518249-9 0-19-514183-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.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.Oxford scholarship online.Apocryphal books (New Testament)Criticism, interpretation, etcChristian heresiesHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600Church historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600Apocryphal books (New Testament)Criticism, interpretation, etc.Christian heresiesHistoryChurch history229/.9206Ehrman Bart D.476550DLCDLCDLCStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910953813003321Lost Christianities18794UNINA