02425nam a22003614a 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020003200124035001800156050002300174082001800197049000900215100002000224245012300244260004800367300003300415504006400448505087900512533015701391650007001548650006001618650006001678655002901738710002101767776006101788856018501849994001202034999001702046ocm57124976 OCoLC20200709055117.0m d cr cnu---unuuu041201s2003 nyua sb 001 0 eng d aN$TcN$T a0195184149 (electronic bk.) a120914b(N$T)14aBS2840b.E4 2003eb04a229/.9206222 aN$TA1 aEhrman, Bart D.10aLost Christianitiesh[electronic resource] :bthe battle for Scripture and the faiths we never knew /cBart D. Ehrman. aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2003. axv, 294 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index.0 aIntroduction, 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. aElectronic reproduction.bBoulder, Colo. :cNetLibrary,d2004.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. 0aApocryphal books (New Testament)xCriticism, interpretation, etc. 0aHeresies, ChristianxHistoryyEarly church, ca. 30-600. 0aChurch historyyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aNetLibrary, Inc.1 cOriginalz0195141830w(DLC) 2003053097w(OCoLC)52335003403Bibliographic record displayuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=120914zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information a02bN$T c48908d48908