It's known that the Church of the 1st Century was not an entirely unified movement, clearly rife with internal fractures. Off the top of my head, I can list a few, but am unsure whether all are distinct camps or where there are overlaps:
-the Pauline camp
-the Petrine camp
-the Apollos camp (do we know what distinguished them?)
-the Johannine community
-the Hebrew Christians (and the Judaizers? An epithet for the whole camp, or a radical wing thereof?)
-the Gnostic Christians
-the Magdalene camp (? More speculative on my part--she always seems a bigger figure in the NT apocrypha, even bigger thar Peter)
Are there other camps that existed? How distinct are they? Were they different communities, or different ideological currents in the same community? Are there overlaps or alliances (say, the Paulines and the Johannines against the Judaizers)? Peter is often depicted as a universal leader, above the different factions; is this accurate, or is this simply successful Petrine propaganda? Were groups like the Gnostics seen as brothers in error or foreign Greek philosophers appropriating Jesus? Was James his own camp, or a member of one of the aforementioned? What were the geographical barriers of these different camps (was John popular in Egypt, Paul in Rome, etc?)?
(I'm aware of the "proto-orthodox" classification, but it always seems to me to be an example of reading history backwards, grouping certain camps together based on who "won" centuries later. I suppose my question is trying to unpack the proto-orthodox; which camps were part of this group, where did they disagree?)