Who Chose the Gospels?
Subtitle: probing the great Gospel conspiracy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199640294
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Drowning in a sea of Gospels; title: The proof is in the papyri : Gospel bestsellers from Egyptian garbage dumps; title: Silencing the Bishop, part I : the lonely Irenaeus; title: Silencing the Bishop, part II : the Ugly Irenaeus; title: Irenaeus' co-conspirators : Clement, Serapion, and a canon-list-maker; title: Packaging the Gospels : of harmonies, synopses, and codices; title: Preaching and teaching the Gospels : Justin Martyr and the apostles' memoirs; title: Justin's Co-conspirators : the Gospels as public documents; title: Some Proto-conspirators : two forgers and an apologist; title: Some co-proto-conspirators : the Apostolic Fathers; title: The search for an arch-conspirator : a bishop, an elder, and an elderly apostle; title: Who chose the Gospels?; title: Appendix : Dates of the earliest manuscripts of the canonical Gospels; title: Glossary