Lost Christianities
by Bart D. Ehrman, Matthew Kugler · first published 2003
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"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' 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 discuss
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(aside - Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew is an interesting book. There were arguments and heresies and divisions in the early church between the Gnostic and proto-orthodox (and other)…
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on “Ask HN: What's the Best Book on Religion” ↗One of the books that I've come across that gets into the development process of the gospels is: Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew According to that book, there was a fair bit of religious conflict between the gonastic branch and the proto-orthordox (and some others too) with…
…class of my almost not getting a CS degree) and stoicism is the branch within there that I've read the most of. https://www.amazon.com/Stoicism-Early-Christianity-Tuomas-Ra... https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Christianities-Battles-Scripture... https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Scriptures-Books-that-Testament/...
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