Forgery and counterforgery : the use of literary deceit in early Christian polemics /
A comprehensive study of early Christian pseudepigrapha. Ehrman argues that ancient critics, pagan, Jewish and Christian, understood false authorial claims to be a form of literary deceit, and thus forgeries. Ehrman considers the extent of the phenomenon, assesses the criteria ancient critics applie...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Forgers, critics, and deceived deceivers
- Terms and taxonomies
- Forgery in antiquity: aspects of the broader phenomenon
- Forgery in antiquity: motives, techniques, intentions, justifications, and criteria of detection
- Introduction to forgery and counterforgery in early Christian polemics
- Early Pauline forgeries dealing with eschatology
- Later forgeries dealing with eschatology
- Forgeries in support of Paul and his authority
- Forgeries in opposition to Paul and his message
- Anti-Jewish forgeries
- Forgeries involving church organization and leadership
- Forgeries involving debates over the flesh
- Forgeries arising from later theological controversies
- Apologetic forgeries
- Lies and deception in the cause of truth.