{"product_id":"lost-christianities-the-battles-for-scripture-and-the-faiths-we-never-knew-paperback","title":"Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBart D. Ehrman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003enot divine, while others said he was divine but not human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLost Christianities\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003etheir 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\u003cbr\u003ediscussion 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\u003cbr\u003eMarcionites, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScrupulously researched and lucidly written, \u003cem\u003eLost Christianities\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBart D. Ehrman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.24 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966783652141,"sku":"9780195182491","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/MnFmZ2VJM1VkT0FEdXJUbXo3YWJkdz09.webp?v=1775538961","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/lost-christianities-the-battles-for-scripture-and-the-faiths-we-never-knew-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}