Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
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
- 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
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