Forgery and Counterforgery The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics

• Main Author: Ehrman, Bart D
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2012; Oxford University Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Christian literature, Early; History and criticism; Literary forgeries and mystifications

Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics is the first major contemporary work on forgery in early Christian literature. It examines the motivation and function behind Christian literary forgeries.