FORGERY AND COUNTERFORGERY:
The use of literary deceit in early Christian
polemics
By Bart Ehrman
Oxford University Press. 628 pages. £27.50
ISBN 978 0 199 928 033
In many ways, this substantial volume by Ehrman seems to be an expansion of his 2011 book, Forged. In that respect, my review of the latter book largely impacts on this volume.
The substance of what Ehrman states in his 2011 work is reproduced in this book. However, there is one major aspect that needs to be underlined – Ehrman’s contention that forgery was as unacceptable in the ancient world as it is today.
