Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication

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.

Syllabus

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
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