Contents -- Preface -- Major Christian Apocrypha Discussed, Dates And Contents -- Introduction: Recouping our Losses -- PART ONE: Forgeries and Discoveries -- 1 The Ancient Discovery of a Forgery: Serapion and the Gospel of Peter -- 2 The Ancient Forgery of a Discovery: The Acts of Paul and Thecla -- 3 The Discovery of an Ancient Forgery: The Coptic Gospel of Thomas -- 4 The Forgery of an Ancient Discovery? Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark -- PART TWO: Heresies and Orthodoxies -- 5 At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites -- 6 Christians "In the Know": The Worlds of Early Christian Gnosticism -- 7 On the Road to Nicaea: The Broad Swath of Proto-orthodox Christianity -- PART THREE: Winners and Losers -- 8 The Quest for Orthodoxy -- 9 The Arsenal of the Conflicts: Polemical Treatises and Personal Slurs -- 10 Additional Weapons in the Polemical Arsenal: Forgeries and Falsifications -- 11 The Invention of Scripture: The Formation of the Proto-orthodox New Testament -- 12 Winners, Losers, and the Question of Tolerance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.