Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics is a 2012 scholarly monograph by American New Testament historian Bart D. Ehrman. It was published by Oxford University Press.
Reception Robert S. Boylan's 2013 review characterized it as an in depth scholarly examination, a valued contribution and historical-critical resource. Boylan notes that while the conclusion on the Book of James being pseudopigraphic is contested, Bart allows for a framework that would interest scholars in the New Perspective on Paul.
The scholar David Brakke called Forgery and Counterforgery a "magisterial book [that] will stimulate new conversations about the early Christian practice of pseudonymous writing". Tony Burke, a professor at York University, found the book to be "a weighty tome" that would have been "far more accessible without the degree of background detail provided on each of the texts in the study".
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External links
National Humanities Center, book page Marginalia Review of Books: review by David Lincicum