Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never KnewOxford University Press, 15 sept. 2005 - 320 pagini The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by Jesus's own followers. Modern archaeological work has recovered a number of key texts, and as Ehrman shows, these spectacular discoveries reveal religious diversity that says much about the ways in which history gets written by the winners. Ehrman's discussion ranges from considerations of various "lost scriptures"--including forged gospels supposedly written by Simon Peter, Jesus's closest disciple, and Judas Thomas, Jesus's alleged twin brother--to the disparate beliefs of such groups as the Jewish-Christian Ebionites, the anti-Jewish Marcionites, and various "Gnostic" sects. Ehrman examines in depth the battles that raged between "proto-orthodox Christians"--those who eventually compiled the canonical books of the New Testament and standardized Christian belief--and the groups they denounced as heretics and ultimately overcame. Scrupulously researched and lucidly written, Lost Christianities is an eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its views prevail. |
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... Pilate, Nicodemus his crucifixion, and descent into Hades (may incorporate a later form of the Acts of Pilate) Gospel of Peter Early 2nd c. Fragmentary narrative of Jesus' trial, death, and resurrection, with an account of Jesus ...
... Pilate, Nicodemus his crucifixion, and descent into Hades (may incorporate a later form of the Acts of Pilate) Gospel of Peter Early 2nd c. Fragmentary narrative of Jesus' trial, death, and resurrection, with an account of Jesus ...
Pagina xii
... Pilate Mid 2nd c. Account of Jesus' trial, which exonerates Pilate Acts of Thecla End 2nd c. for his involvement and shows Jesus' superiority to the pagan gods An account of the conversion, persecutions, and miraculous escapes of Paul's ...
... Pilate Mid 2nd c. Account of Jesus' trial, which exonerates Pilate Acts of Thecla End 2nd c. for his involvement and shows Jesus' superiority to the pagan gods An account of the conversion, persecutions, and miraculous escapes of Paul's ...
Pagina 18
... Pilate stood up. It is a significant beginning for two reasons. It shows that, just before the fragment begins, the Gospel contained an account of Pilate washing his hands— a story found, among our New Testament Gospels, only in Matthew ...
... Pilate stood up. It is a significant beginning for two reasons. It shows that, just before the fragment begins, the Gospel contained an account of Pilate washing his hands— a story found, among our New Testament Gospels, only in Matthew ...
Pagina 19
... Pilate and tell him all that has happened. The Jewish leaders beg him to keep the story quiet, for fear that they will be stoned, once the Jewish people realize what they have done in putting Jesus to death. Pilate commands the soldiers ...
... Pilate and tell him all that has happened. The Jewish leaders beg him to keep the story quiet, for fear that they will be stoned, once the Jewish people realize what they have done in putting Jesus to death. Pilate commands the soldiers ...
Pagina 20
... Pilate for Jesus' death and to blame Jews—all Jews—more and more. It is an illuminating exercise to trace the treatment of Pilate through our surviving Gospels. The more he is excused, the more the Jews are blamed. Our earliest account ...
... Pilate for Jesus' death and to blame Jews—all Jews—more and more. It is an illuminating exercise to trace the treatment of Pilate through our surviving Gospels. The more he is excused, the more the Jews are blamed. Our earliest account ...
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew Bart D. Ehrman Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew Bart D. Ehrman Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew Bart D. Ehrman Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |
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