Lost Christianities and Christian Scriptures; Books and Teachings by Bart D. Ehrman.

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Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication.

(24 half-hour lectures.)

Lecture Titles

Part 1

  1. The Diversity of Early Christianity: Second and third century beliefs, up to the Council of Nicea.
  2. Christians Who Would Be Jews: The Ebionites.
  3. Christians Who Refuse To Be Jews: The Marcionites.
  4. Early Gnostics Christianity - Our Sources.
  5. Early Christian Gnosticism - An Overview.
  6. The Gnostic Gospel of Truth.
  7. Gnostics Explain Themselves. Ptolomy's Letter to Flora and the Treatise on the Resurrection.
  8. The Coptic Gospel of Thomas.
  9. Thomas' Gnostic Teachings.
  10. Infancy Gospels.
  11. The Gospel of Peter.
  12. The Secret Gospel of Mark.

Part 2

  1. The Acts of John.
  2. The Acts of Thomas.
  3. The Acts of Paul and Thecla.
  4. Forgeries in the Name of Paul.
  5. The Epistle of Barnabas.
  6. The Apocalypse of John.
  7. The Rise of Early Christian Orthodoxy.
  8. Beginnings of the Canon.
  9. Formation of the New Testament Canon.
  10. Interpretation of Scripture.
  11. Orthodox Corruption of Scripture.
  12. Early Christian Creeds.



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