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Lost Christianities : the battles for scripture and the faiths we never knew /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Major Christian Apocrypha Discussed, Dates And Contents
- Introduction: Recouping our Losses
- PART ONE: Forgeries and Discoveries
- 1 The Ancient Discovery of a Forgery: Serapion and the Gospel of Peter
- 2 The Ancient Forgery of a Discovery: The Acts of Paul and Thecla
- 3 The Discovery of an Ancient Forgery: The Coptic Gospel of Thomas
- 4 The Forgery of an Ancient Discovery? Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark
- PART TWO: Heresies and Orthodoxies
- 5 At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites.
- 6 Christians "In the Know": The Worlds of Early Christian Gnosticism
- 7 On the Road to Nicaea: The Broad Swath of Proto-orthodox Christianity
- PART THREE: Winners and Losers
- 8 The Quest for Orthodoxy
- 9 The Arsenal of the Conflicts: Polemical Treatises and Personal Slurs
- 10 Additional Weapons in the Polemical Arsenal: Forgeries and Falsifications
- 11 The Invention of Scripture: The Formation of the Proto-orthodox New Testament
- 12 Winners, Losers, and the Question of Tolerance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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