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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testamentby: Bart D. Ehrman  List Price: $19.99 Amazon.com's Price: $13.59 You Save: $6.40 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 229.9205209 EAN: 9780195182507 ISBN: 0195182502 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 15, 2005 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all 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 that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary 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 leads to damnation. In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, a number of Apocalypes and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to each piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lost ScripturesI found this book very interesting. The author presents his translations in an effort to make them more easily readable for modern readers. Much easier to understand than the more literal translations in The Nag Hamadi Library, although he does not include all of the Nag Hamadi codices here. Highly recommended. Rating: - Lost Scriptures; Books that Did Not Make It into the New TestamentThis is a fasinating book. It takes you on a wonderful jouerney of learning the scriptures that were removed from the bible. Great reading I highly reccomend this one. Rating:  - Bart Herman "Misquoting Jesus"Bart Herman, is a good scholar, and probably (for good reasons) anti-clerical: the christians church, seem to have distorted, modified, and destroyed most ancient texts and books (autodafe's) which did not fit their goals. -- Related suggesting readings: Edwards Gibbons ("Decline and fall of the roman empire"): suggested that there are little or no historical evidence of Romans persecutions of Christians. He rather suggest that this claim was a pretext... to persecute! Read More Rating: - Very Good to Know, but not totally revolutionary.`Lost Scriptures' by leading biblical scholar and translator, Bart D. Ehrman, has a sensational and slightly misleading title for a relatively scholarly and `ordinary' book, as New Testament era scholarship goes. The misleading aspect of the title is that the ancient documents of which translations are presented herein are not `lost' and, with some important exceptions, have not been lost for quite some time, to those who study such things. Several of the documents here are from the Nag Hammadi cache ... Read More Rating: - Here's 37 books you won't find in your NTThe Greek Old Testament has a number of books not included in the Hebrew because Jews excluded them believing they were not divine. These books are referred to as Apocrypha and I have a Revised Standard Version (RSV) with these books. I've read them and its not hard to see why they were excluded but I was not aware the same thing happened in the New Testament. These books were excluded because the Catholic Church considered them not Christian. I was curious about what they may have said so I bought this ... Read More 
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