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    <title>Lost Christianities</title>
    <subTitle>the battle for Scripture and the faiths we never knew</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Ehrman, Bart D.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xv, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction, recouping our losses -- Forgeries and discoveries: Ancient discovery of a forgery, Serapion and the Gospel of Peter; Ancient forgery of a discovery, the Acts of Paul and Thecla; Discovery of an ancient forgery, the Coptic Gospel of Thomas; Forgery of an ancient discovery? Morton Smith and the secret Gospel of Mark -- Heresies and orthodoxies: At polar ends of the spectrum, early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites; Christians "in the know", the worlds of early Christian gnosticism; On the road to Nicaea, the broad swath of proto-orthodox Christianity -- Winners and losers: Quest for orthodoxy; Arsenal of the conflicts, polemic treatises and personal slurs; Additional weapons in the polemic arsenal, forgeries and falsifications; Invention of scripture, the formation of the proto-orthodox New Testament; Winners, losers, and the question of tolerance.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Bart D. Ehrman.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Early church, ca. 30-600</temporal>
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    <temporal>Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600</temporal>
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