A review by its_kievan
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

There’s a lot of interesting stuff buried in this book, but god is it hidden beneath a mountain of very uninteresting stuff. That’s a little bit my fault: I’ve been on a real early Christianity kick lately so a lot of things that would otherwise be surprising - Gnostics, forged Scripture, Paul being a dick - were old news to me. But the bigger problem is Ehrman’s writing, which is so endlessly repetitive that I could feel my brain wilt. Credit where credit’s sue, it’s not academic or jargon-y, but he goes too far in the other direction and takes a single idea and goes over and over it until it’s driven into the dust. Again, they’re fascinating ideas, and despite everything I think anyone who’s interested in the history of Christianity should check this book out - but I’m so happy I never have to read it again.
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