Read by Walter Dixon

It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better,
that .writing in the name of another. was widely accepted in antiquity.
But New York Times best-selling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it
what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as
it is today. In Forged, Ehrman.s fresh and original research takes readers
back to the ancient world, where forgeries were used as weapons by unknown
authors to fend off attacks to their faith and establish their church.
So, if many of the books in the Bible were not in fact written by Jesus.
inner circle - but by writers living decades later, with differing agendas
in rival communities - what does that do to the authority of scripture?

Ehrman investigates ancient sources to:
Reveal which New Testament books were outright forgeries.
Explain how widely forgery was practiced by early Christian writers -
and how strongly it was condemned in the ancient world as fraudulent and
illicit
Expose the deception in the history of the Christian religion.

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