Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew103 reviews Bart D. Ehrman Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Gripping reading + Good enough for its target audience + New Theories re: old ideas Ehrman surprisingly manages to introduce a sensitive topic in a largely unbiased way without being offensive to the sensibilities of most Christians today. This is a very difficult accomplishment where many other authors failed before. I really appreciated his exposition, and actually learned ...             Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark1 review Marvin W. Meyer Trinity Press International, 2003 A close and scholarly study of apocryphal texts Secret Gospels: Essays On Thomas And The Secret Gospel Of Mark by Marvin Meyer (Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies, Chapman University, Orange, California) is a close and scholarly study of apocryphal texts - those ancient Christian writings which are not included in the canonical New ...             Jesus The Sorcerer Robert Conner Mandrake, 2006 The most complete summation to date of the New Testament evidence for magical practice by Jesus and the early Christians. The very notion of Jesus being a sorcerer runs so against the grain of the Western cultural myth that even non-Christians are likely to find it far-fetched or even vaguely disturbing. Nevertheless, scholars steadily accumulated evidence for magical practices in the New ...             The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark4 reviews Morton Smith Dawn Horse Press, 2005 incredibly valuable resource + The Truth & Proof About The Secret Gospel of Mark I found The Secret Gospel to be an incredibly valuable resource in my understanding and appreciation for the Christian tradition. While I am new to the study of this tradition, I was nevertheless able to follow the logic of Morton Smith's research and conclusions easily, as long as I gave his ...             Mark’s Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith’s Controversial Discovery (Studies in Christianity ...5 reviews Scott G. Brown Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005 Peerless Book on Secret Mark + Sorry Boys... This case is too strong. + Indispensable reference + Theologians are so credulous             Decoding Mark2 reviews John Dart Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006 Lots of Good and Interesting Ideas Well Presented + Decoding Mark -The Truth & Proof About The Secret Gospel of Mark As a journalist, John Dart has a nice, easy to understand and charming style. He presents a hypothesis that he's obviously excited about, and it is a hypothesis well worth considering. He suggests that the gospel writer Mark organized his work around a series of chiasms (basically words ...             Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark1 review Marvin W. Meyer Trinity Press International, 2003 A close and scholarly study of apocryphal texts Secret Gospels: Essays On Thomas And The Secret Gospel Of Mark by Marvin Meyer (Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies, Chapman University, Orange, California) is a close and scholarly study of apocryphal texts - those ancient Christian writings which are not included in the canonical New ...             The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark4 reviews Morton Smith Dawn Horse Press, 2005 incredibly valuable resource + The Truth & Proof About The Secret Gospel of Mark I found The Secret Gospel to be an incredibly valuable resource in my understanding and appreciation for the Christian tradition. While I am new to the study of this tradition, I was nevertheless able to follow the logic of Morton Smith's research and conclusions easily, as long as I gave his ...             Mark’s Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith’s Controversial Discovery (Studies in Christianity ...5 reviews Scott G. Brown Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005 Peerless Book on Secret Mark + Sorry Boys... This case is too strong. + Indispensable reference + Theologians are so credulous             Jesus The Sorcerer Robert Conner Mandrake, 2006 The most complete summation to date of the New Testament evidence for magical practice by Jesus and the early Christians. The very notion of Jesus being a sorcerer runs so against the grain of the Western cultural myth that even non-Christians are likely to find it far-fetched or even vaguely disturbing. Nevertheless, scholars steadily accumulated evidence for magical practices in the New ...             Decoding Mark2 reviews John Dart Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006 Lots of Good and Interesting Ideas Well Presented + Decoding Mark -The Truth & Proof About The Secret Gospel of Mark As a journalist, John Dart has a nice, easy to understand and charming style. He presents a hypothesis that he's obviously excited about, and it is a hypothesis well worth considering. He suggests that the gospel writer Mark organized his work around a series of chiasms (basically words ...             Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew103 reviews Bart D. Ehrman Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Gripping reading + Good enough for its target audience + New Theories re: old ideas Ehrman surprisingly manages to introduce a sensitive topic in a largely unbiased way without being offensive to the sensibilities of most Christians today. This is a very difficult accomplishment where many other authors failed before. I really appreciated his exposition, and actually learned ...