Discover myriad works of early Christianity that failed to make the official canon and become part of the Bible in this course by best-selling author and Professor Bart D. Ehrman.
Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Diversity of Early Christianity
- 02: Christians Who Would Be Jews
- 03: Christians Who Refuse To Be Jews
- 04: Early Gnostic Christianity-Our Sources
- 05: Early Christian Gnosticism-An Overview
- 06: The Gnostic Gospel of Truth
- 07: Gnostics Explain Themselves
- 08: The Coptic Gospel of Thomas
- 09: Thomas' Gnostic Teachings
- 10: Infancy Gospels
- 11: The Gospel of Peter
- 12: The Secret Gospel of Mark
- 13: The Acts of John
- 14: The Acts of Thomas
- 15: The Acts of Paul and Thecla
- 16: Forgeries in the Name of Paul
- 17: The Epistle of Barnabas
- 18: The Apocalypse of Peter
- 19: The Rise of Early Christian Orthodoxy
- 20: Beginnings of the Canon
- 21: Formation of the New Testament Canon
- 22: Interpretation of Scripture
- 23: Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
- 24: Early Christian Creeds
Taught by
Bart D. Ehrman
