Bart D. (Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Religious Studies, Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Religious Studies, U
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary...
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the ...
