Lost Christianities : Christian scriptures and the battles over authentication /
Professor Bart D. Ehrman ... lends "his expert guidance as you follow scholars' efforts to recover knowledge of early Christian groups that lost the struggle for converts, and simply disappeared. This course focuses on the remarkable fact that many of the struggles of early Christians wer...
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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2002]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. lecture 1. The diversity of early Christianity ; lecture 2. Christians who would be Jews ; lecture 3. Christians who refuse to be Jews ; lecture 4. Early gnostic Christianity : our sources ; lecture 5. Early Christian gnosticism : an overview ; lecture 6. The gnostic gospel of truth ; lecture 7. Gnostics explain themselves ; lecture 8. The Coptic gospel of Thomas ; lecture 9. Thomas' gnostic teachings ; lecture 10. Infancy gospels ; lecture 11. The gospel of Peter ; lecture 12. The secret gospel of Mark
- pt. II. lecture 13. The Acts of John ; lecture 14. The Acts of Thomas ; lecture 15. The Acts of Paul and Thecla ; lecture 16. Forgeries in the name of Paul ; lecture 17. The epistle of Barnabas ; lecture 18. The Apocalypse of Peter ; lecture 19. The rise of early Christian orthodoxy ; lecture 20. The beginnings of the canon ; lecture 21. Formation of the New Testament canon ; lecture 22. Interpretation of scripture ; lecture 23. Orthodox corruption of Scripture ; lecture 24. Early Christian creeds.