Forgery and Counterforgery
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| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Early Christian literature, pseudepigraphy, textual criticism |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | November 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 628 |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-992803-3 |
| OCLC | 825060076 |
| Preceded by | The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations (2011) |
| Followed by | Did Jesus Exist? (2012) |
Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics is a 2012 scholarly monograph by American New Testament historian Bart D. Ehrman. Published by Oxford University Press, the volume surveys first- through fourth-century Christian writings that claim false authorship and evaluates how contemporaries received them.
Ehrman applies textual criticism and related historical analysis to define literary forgery in Greco-Roman contexts and to trace how pseudepigraphal texts functioned within early Christian debates. Reviewers described the study as an expansive and rigorous examination of literary deceit in Christian polemics.