TY - BOOK AU - Ehrman,Bart D. ED - NetLibrary, Inc. TI - Lost Christianities: the battle for Scripture and the faiths we never knew SN - 0195184149 (electronic bk.) AV - BS2840 .E4 2003eb U1 - 229/.9206 22 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Apocryphal books (New Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Heresies, Christian KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Boulder, Colo.; NetLibrary; 2004; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries UR - http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=120914 ER -