Faking the Canon
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Forging the Bible, 6 February 2014
Forgery and Counter-Forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
by Bart Ehrman.
Oxford, 628 pp., £27.50, January 2013,978 0 19 992803 3 Show More
by Bart Ehrman.
Oxford, 628 pp., £27.50, January 2013,
“... me all I thought I needed to know about my Christian faith, and then an American scholar called Bart Ehrman seized me by the lapels to tell me that ‘the most distinctive feature’ of its content was ‘the degree to which it was forged’. That is precisely what Ehrman says, on the first page of his engrossing and ... ”