Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics - Bart D. Ehrman Audiobook
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“Arguably the most distinctive feature of the early Christian literature,” writes Bart Ehrman, “is the degree to which it was forged.” The Homilies and Recognitions of Clement; Paul’s letters to and from Seneca; Gospels by Peter, Thomas, and Philip; Jesus’ correspondence with Abgar, letters by Peter and Paul in the New Testament — all forgeries. To cite just a few examples.
Forgery and Counterforgery is the first comprehensive study of early Christian pseudepigrapha ever produced in English. In it, Ehrman argues that ancient critics — pagan, Jewish, and Christian — understood false authorial claims to be a form of literary deceit, and thus forgeries. Ehrman considers the extent of the phenomenon, the “intention” and motivations of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish forgers, and reactions to their work once detected. He also assesses the criteria ancient critics applied to expose forgeries and the techniques forgers used to avoid detection.
With the wider practices of the ancient world as backdrop, Ehrman then focuses on early Christian polemics, as various Christian authors forged documents in order to lend their ideas a veneer of authority in literary battles waged with pagans, Jews, and, most importantly, with one another in internecine disputes over doctrine and practice. In some instances a forger directed his work against views found in another forgery, creating thereby a “counter-forgery.” Ehrman’s evaluation of polemical forgeries starts with those of the New Testament (nearly half of whose books make a false authorial claim) up through the Pseudo-Ignatian epistles and the Apostolic Constitutions at the end of the fourth century.
Shining light on an important but overlooked feature of the early Christian world, Forgery and Counterforgery explores the possible motivations of the deceivers who produced these writings, situating their practice within ancient Christian discourses on lying and deceit.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 4/5
November 7th, 2016
Thank you, this looks very interesting.
November 8th, 2016
Thank you, anansisan; Ehrman is always worth reading, and I look forward to hearing this. It’s hard to see how he can make the subject worth 25 hours of listening, though.
November 8th, 2016
This sounds very similiar to his book titles ‘Forged’ published last year.
November 13th, 2016
I’ve listened to about 3 hours so far and it’s a grind, due not to the content but the reader. He confidently mispronounces just about every Latin word and Greek and Roman names, and botches ordinary English words often enough to keep me hoping some audiobook editor might come along partway through to clue him in. Ehrman has been badly served by his publisher, Audible.
November 16th, 2016
This is total blasphemy.I bet a heathen atheist wrote this book out of boredom.How do you even listen to one second of such a useless book.
November 21st, 2016
Thank you Uploader!
Do you also have “God’s Problem: Why we Suffer” also by Bart Ehrman?
December 16th, 2016
Agreed with Vaneyck. Unlistenable due to inexcusable mispronunciations. It’s not being pedantic, it just makes the production sound unprofessional and the reader sound ignorant. Such a pity, as I always find Ehrman worthwhile,
February 13th, 2018
thanks for upload
November 10th, 2025
This is the scholarly, primary edition of Ehrman’s book Forged where he gets significantly more technically and provides more evidence at the cost of being interesting to the general population. Forged was written for the public, Forgery and Counterforgery was written for his peers or anyone wanting to take a deeper dive into the material. It is the true culmination of his studies on the topic, while Forged was boiled down to appeal to a broader audience. I feel that context was needed since these other comments don’t shed any light on the subject.
That being said, holy shit this narrator is bad. I have no idea how they could let this slide. Look at the other books he has narrated on here, super low quality raunchy romance novels for horny middle aged women and a 9/11 conspiracy theory book. The narrator selection was so bad it was probably intentional. 5 stars for the book, 1 star for the narrator.
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