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<P>For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself are the results of both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes. </P><P> In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only certain versions of the stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today. Ehrman frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultra–conservative views of the Bible.</P>

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1. The smart ass academic or pseudoacademic who says the book isn’t that good anyway
2. The fundamentalist Christian appalled at the idea of someone doubting the infa...more...]]> 2 7 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 09:26:40 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 16:27:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Sat Jun 28 09:03:52 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 09:11:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Jan 09 19:20:12 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 16:25:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Jul 26 11:55:20 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 11:55:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 24 07:42:14 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 06:41:40 -0700 2007
The book was not quite what I expected, inasmuch as it focused a lot more on the individual motivations of scribes and/or transcription errors rather than the major political a...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 17:06:51 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 20:10:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 11:01:23 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 05:48:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 17:37:40 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 16 19:00:46 -0800 2008
This is a book about those inconsistenci...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 06 06:29:43 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 20 18:31:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 23:49:29 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 19 22:13:05 -0800 2007
I knew some of the basics of textural criticism before but it was fascinating to see how it applied to thes...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Aug 07 07:36:31 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 09:20:08 -0700 2007
I enjoyed reading about a fundamentalist who actually saw the light and understood the Bible, like the Constitution, was intended to be a living document - not a frozen one.

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Ehrman reviews the physical evidence we have of the New Testament canon -- several tens of thousands of parchments of Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 11:04:50 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:11:05 -0700 2009
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