The Earliest Christian Heretics Book

A good concise guide to the early heresies. Being compiled before a full translation of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts had been completed we only get the opposition side to these divergent views of Christianity, yet even in that there is a great deal of merit. As the authors say at the beginning, you would need quite a large library to have all of these references in their individual volumes so I am very glad to have them all in one slim book. I agree that more author commentary would have been appreciated but there is also something to be said for having the original authors words stand on their own. Highly recommended for any looking into how Christianity may have developed as well as those seeking the original sources for some of the ideas coming into the church today.