1. Introduction: Method and Interests -- 2. Irenaeus of Lyons and Tertullian of Carthage: The Most Important Heresiologists in the Early Christian Period -- 3. How the Heresiologists Became Heretics, or, The Jewish Christians of Jerusalem in the First Two Centuries -- 4. The Only Heretic of the Earliest Period, or, A Human Paul -- 5. Heresies over the Legacy of Paul -- 6. The Arch-Heretic Marcion and His Time -- 7. Heresies in the Johannine Writings -- 8. The Origin of the Apostles' Creed -- 9. The Origin of the New Testament Canon -- 10. The Christianity of the First Two Centuries, Jesus, and Ourselves -- Epilogue: Ten Golden Words -- App. 1. Justin, Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, 46, 1-2; 47, 1-5 -- App. 2. III Corinthians -- App. 3. The Letter to Rheginos from Nag Hammadi.
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