Item #17545 Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Bart D. EHRMAN.

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. Second Printing. Hardcover. Large octavo. xviii + 294pp. Black papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Bibliography & index. B/w illustrations. From the publisher: "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." A clean VG+ copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket price-clipped, 1" edge tear & large bottom-edge crease to front panel). Item #17545
ISBN: 0195141830

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