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By Bart D. Ehrman

Whereas most folks imagine that the twenty-seven books of the recent testomony are the single sacred writings of the early Christians, this isn't in any respect the case. A better half quantity to Bart Ehrman's misplaced Christianities, this publication bargains an anthology of updated and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the 1st centuries after Christ—texts which have been for the main half misplaced or missed for nearly millennia. here's an array of remarkably different writings from early Christian teams whose visions of Jesus vary dramatically from our modern figuring out. Readers will locate Gospels supposedly authored by way of the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts initially ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul's lady significant other; there are Epistles allegedly written through Paul to the Roman thinker Seneca. and there's an apocalypse through Simon Peter that provides a guided journey of the afterlife, either the wonderful ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle through Titus, a significant other of Paul, which argues web page after web page opposed to sexual love, even inside of marriage, given that actual intimacy results in damnation. In all, the anthology contains fifteen Gospels, 5 non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, 13 Epistles, a few Apocalypes and mystery Books, and several other Canon lists. Ehrman has incorporated a common advent, plus short introductions to every piece. this significant anthology supplies readers a vibrant photo of the diversity of ideals that battled one another within the first centuries of the Christian period.

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For there is no imper­ ishability, of things, but there is of sons. And no thing can attain imperishability if it does not become a son. But if some­ one cannot receive, how much more will he not be able to give? 100 The Cup of Prayer holds wine and it holds water. It serves as a type of the blood for which they give thanks. And it is full of the Holy Spirit and belongs to the completely perfect Man. When we drink this, we will take to ourselves the perfect Man. 101 The living water is a body. It is right that we clothe ourselves with the living Man.

Whom are you seeking? Not the one who was crucified? He has risen and left. But if you do not believe it, stoop down to look, and see the place where he was laid, that he is not there. ” 57 Then the women fled out of fear. 58 But it was the final day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and many left to return to their homes, now that the feast had ended. 59 But we, the twelve disci­ ples of the Lord, wept and grieved; and each one returned to his home, grieving for what had happened. 60 But I, Simon Peter, and my brother Andrew, took our nets and went off to the sea.

13 The archons wanted to deceive the human because they saw that he was kin­ dred to the truly good ones. They took the name of the good ones and gave it to those that are not good, so that by names they could deceive him and bind them to the ones that are not good. If they do them a favor, they are taken away from those who are not good and given their place among those that are good. They knew these things. For they (the archons) wished to take the free person and en­ slave him forever. . 15 Before the Christ came there was no bread in the world.

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