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EPISODE · May 13, 2018 · 34 MIN

2.21 Battle for the New Testament I: Earliest Times

from History in the Bible · host Garry Stevens

Christians in the first two centuries did not have a sacred canon of books. In this first of four parts, I discuss what the earliest church fathers Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp and Papias were reading. Marcion spurred the Jesus-clubs into action.

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