in a way that favors their own party, and puts any rivals in a bad light. The winners who wrote the histories were biased, often so biased, they couldn’t even see their own bias. So, when we read early orthodox writers today, we need to adopt a hermeneutic of suspicion, and read against the grain. This is what the history books are telling us today. But then, isn’t history always written by the winners? And aren’t the winners often so enmeshed in the reigning cultural narrative that they can’t see