Sale!

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

Amazon.com Price:  $15.42 (as of 25/04/2019 21:40 PST- Details)

Description

Even as most of the people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this isn’t at all of 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 which have been for the most part lost or neglected for nearly two millennia.

Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our up to date understanding. Readers will find Gospels supposedly authored by the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts originally ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul’s female companion; there are Epistles allegedly written by Paul to the Roman philosopher Seneca. And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy results in damnation.

In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, various Apocalypses and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to every piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled every other in the first centuries of the Christian era.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Engineering and Transportation » Engineering » Reference » Atlases and Maps » World » Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

Recent Products