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Who Chose the Gospels?

Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy

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Notes: The direct answer to Ehrman's Lost Christianities, also in this batch: Hill argues from the papyri and from Irenaeus, Justin and the Apostolic Fathers that the fourfold Gospel was settled far earlier than the fourth century. The paged text runs to xi + 295; Open Library gives 320.

Introduction: Drowning in a Sea of Gospels
1. The Proof Is in the Papyri: Gospel Bestsellers from Egyptian Garbage Dumps
2. Silencing the Bishop, Part I: The Lonely Irenaeus
3. Silencing the Bishop, Part II: The Ugly Irenaeus
4. Irenaeus' Co-conspirators: Clement, Serapion, and a Canon-List-Maker
5. Packaging the Gospels: Of Harmonies, Synopses, and Codices
6. Preaching and Teaching the Gospels: Justin Martyr and the Apostles' Memoirs
7. Justin's Co-conspirators: The Gospels as Public Documents
8. Some Proto-conspirators: Two Forgers and an Apologist
9. Some Co-proto-conspirators: The Apostolic Fathers
10. The Search for an Arch-conspirator: A Bishop, an Elder, and an Elderly Apostle
11. Who Chose the Gospels?
Appendix: Dates of the Earliest Manuscripts of the Canonical Gospels
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