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Celsias is the proud sponsor of this ebook. 1 Contents 10 Preface 12 Major Christian Apocrypha Discussed, Dates And Contents 14 Introduction: Recouping our Losses 22 PART ONE: Forgeries and Discoveries 30 1 The Ancient Discovery of a Forgery: Serapion and the Gospel of Peter 34 2 The Ancient Forgery of a Discovery: The Acts of Paul and Thecla 50 3 The Discovery of an Ancient Forgery: The Coptic Gospel of Thomas 68 4 The Forgery of an Ancient Discovery? Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark 88 PART TWO: Heresies and Orthodoxies 112 5 At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites 116 6 Christians “In the Know”: The Worlds of Early Christian Gnosticism 134 7 On the Road to Nicaea: The Broad Swath of Proto-orthodox Christianity 156 PART THREE: Winners and Losers 180 8 The Quest for Orthodoxy 184 9 The Arsenal of the Conflicts: Polemical Treatises and Personal Slurs 202 10 Additional Weapons in the Polemical Arsenal: Forgeries and Falsifications 224 11 The Invention of Scripture: The Formation of the Proto-orthodox New Testament 250 12 Winners, Losers, and the Question of Tolerance 268 Notes 280 Bibliography 302 Index 310 A 310 B 310 C 310 D 311 E 311 F 3

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Bart D. Ehrman

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