Early Christian Lies and the Lying Liars Who Wrote Them: Bart Ehrman's Forgery and Counterforgery

A literary criticism of the book "Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics" by Bart Ehrman is presented. It outlines the characters and explores the symbolic significance of these characters. It discusses the aspects and concepts of forged writings...

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Main Author: Brakke, David 1961- (Author)
Contributors: Ehrman, Bart D. 1955- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2016
In: The journal of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 96, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-390
Review of:Forgery and counterforgery (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013) (Brakke, David)
Forgery and counterforgery (s.l. : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012) (Brakke, David)
Forgery and counterforgery (s.l. : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012) (Brakke, David)
Further subjects:B FORGERY in literature
B FORGERY & Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics (Book)
B EHRMAN, Bart
B Church History Primitive & early church, ca. 30-600
B Forgery
B EARLY Christian literature
B History
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Summary:A literary criticism of the book "Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics" by Bart Ehrman is presented. It outlines the characters and explores the symbolic significance of these characters. It discusses the aspects and concepts of forged writings of Christian history and its religious practices with special enthusiasm. An overview of the story is also given.
ISSN:1549-6538
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1086/686567