Table of Contents

• • Introduction: Drowning in a Sea of Gospels
  • 1. The Proof is in the Papyri: Gospel Bestsellers from Egyptian Garbage Dumps
  • 2. Silencing the Bishop, Part I: The Lonely Irenaeus
  • 3. Silencing the Bishop, Part II: The Ugly Irenaeus
  • 4. Irenaeus’ ‘Co-conspirators’: Clement, Serapion, and a Canon-list-maker
  • 5. ‘Packaging’ the Gospels: of Harmonies, Synopses, and Codices
  • 6. Preaching and Teaching the Gospels: Justin Martyr and the Apostles’ Memoirs
  • 7. Justin’s ‘Co-conspirators’: The Gospels as Public Documents
  • 8. Some ‘Proto-conspirators’: Two Forgers and an Apologist
  • 9. Some ‘Co-proto-conspirators’: The Apostolic Fathers
  • 10. The Search for an ‘Arch-conspirator’: A Bishop, an Elder, and an Elderly Apostle
  • 11. Who Chose the Gospels?
  • Appendix: Dates of the earliest manuscripts of the canonical Gospels Glossary Index