LEADER 03918nam 22006974 450 001 9910953813003321 005 20251116204555.0 010 $a0-19-773998-9 010 $a0-19-518414-9 010 $a1-280-48168-4 010 $a0-19-972712-0 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195141832.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)2550000001204450 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194354 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180357 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194354 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231537 035 $a(PQKB)10319808 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL280931 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10084847 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL48168 035 $a(OCoLC)252579399 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC280931 035 $a(OCoLC)1406788654 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197739983 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5751173 035 $a(BIP)11259117 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001204450 100 $a20030506e20232003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLost Christianities $ethe battles for Scripture and the faiths we never knew /$fBart D. Ehrman 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $axv, 294 p. $cill 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2003. 311 08$a0-19-518249-9 311 08$a0-19-514183-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index. 330 $aThe early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by Jesus's own followers. Modern archaeological work has recovered a number of key texts, and as Ehrman shows, these spectacular discoveries reveal religious diversity that says much about the ways in which history gets written by the winners. Ehrman's discussion ranges from considerations of various "lost scriptures"--including forged gospels supposedly written by Simon Peter, Jesus's closest disciple, and Judas Thomas, Jesus's alleged twin brother--to the disparate beliefs of such groups as the Jewish-Christian Ebionites, the anti-Jewish Marcionites, and various "Gnostic" sects. Ehrman examines in depth the battles that raged between "proto-orthodox Christians"-- those who eventually compiled the canonical books of the New Testament and standardized Christian belief--and the groups they denounced as heretics and ultimately overcame. Scrupulously researched and lucidly written, Lost Christianities is an eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its views prevail. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aApocryphal books (New Testament)$xCriticism, interpretation, etc 606 $aChristian heresies$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 615 0$aApocryphal books (New Testament)$xCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 0$aChristian heresies$xHistory 615 0$aChurch history 676 $a229/.9206 700 $aEhrman$b Bart D.$0476550 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953813003321 996 $aLost Christianities$918794 997 $aUNINA