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by Bart D. Ehrman

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A companion volume to Ehrman's "Lost Christianities," this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia.

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While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia.

Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Readers will find Gospels supposedly authored by the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts originally ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul's female companion; there are Epistles allegedly written by Paul to the Roman philosopher Seneca. And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy leads to damnation.

In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, a number of Apocalypses and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to each piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.

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Jewish Christians in the early centuries of the church were widely thought to have preferred the Gospel of Matthew to all others, since it is Matthew that stresses the importance of keeping the Jewish Law down to every jot and tittle (5:17-20) and that emphasizes, more than any other, the Jewishness of Jesus.

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  • Title Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament
  • Author Bart D. Ehrman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2005-09-15
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195182507 / 0195182502
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1300
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Biblical Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Apocryphal books (New Testament)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 229.92

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  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/2005, Page 74

About the author

Bart D. Ehrman is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings and Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium.
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