Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

by Bart D. Ehrman
ISBN-10:
0195182502
ISBN-13:
9780195182507
Pub. Date:
09/15/2005
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195182502
ISBN-13:
9780195182507
Pub. Date:
09/15/2005
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

by Bart D. Ehrman
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Overview

While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ—texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia.

Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Readers will find Gospels supposedly authored by the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts originally ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul's female companion; there are Epistles allegedly written by Paul to the Roman philosopher Seneca. And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy leads to damnation.

In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, a number of Apocalypses and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to each piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195182507
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/15/2005
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 214,865
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile: 1300L (what's this?)

About the Author

Bart D. Ehrman is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings and Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium.

Table of Contents

General Introduction
NON-CANONICAL GOSPELS
The Gospel of the Nazareans
The Gospel According to the Ebionites
The Gospel According to the Hebrews
The Gospel According to the Egyptians
The Coptic Gospel of Thomas
Papyrus Egerton 2: The Unknown Gospel
The Gospel of Peter
The Gospel of Mary
The Gospel of Philip
The Gospel of Truth
The Gospel of the Savior
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The Proto-Gospel of James
The Epistle of the Apostles
The Coptic Apocalypse of Peter
The Second Treatise of Great Seth
The Secret Gospel of Mark
NON-CANONICAL ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
The Acts of John
The Acts of Paul
The Acts of Thecla
The Acts of Thomas
The Acts of Peter
NON-CANONICAL EPISTLES AND RELATED WRITINGS
The Third Letter to the Corinthians
Correspondence of Paul and Seneca
Paul's Letter to the Laodiceans
The Letter of 1 Clement
The Letter of 2 Clement
The "Letter of Peter to James" and its "Reception"
The Homilies of Clement
Ptolemy's Letter to Flora
The Treatise of the Resurrection
The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
The Letter of Barnabas
The Preachings of Peter
Pseudo-Titus
NON-CANONICAL APOCALYPSES AND REVELATORY TREATISES
The Shepherd of Herman
The Apocalypse of Peter
The Apocalypse of Paul
The Secret Book of John
On the Origin of the World
The First Thought in Three Forms
The Hymn of the Pearl
CANONICAL LISTS
The Muratorian Canon
The Canon of Origen of Alexandria
The Canon of Eusebius
The Canon of Athansius of Alexandria
The Canon at the Third Synod of Carthage
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