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Misquoting Jesus

the story behind who changed the Bible and why

By Bart D. Ehrman

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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

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An Exciting Introduction To Biblical Textual Criticism

Ehrman is a wonder. A fervent evangelical who graduated from the Moody Bible Institute, he had the intellectual courage to further his Biblical studies at a real university, learn the original languages of the Gospels, and eventually, lose his faith.
Ehrman's has become a world-leading Biblica ... (continue)

Ehrman is a wonder. A fervent evangelical who graduated from the Moody Bible Institute, he had the intellectual courage to further his Biblical studies at a real university, learn the original languages of the Gospels, and eventually, lose his faith.
Ehrman's has become a world-leading Biblical scholar and textual critic, but not before losing his faith in the Bible as the "inerrant Word of God" and being a divinely inspired rather than a thoroughly human endeavour.
His is the first book to explain to lay people why textual scholars may be confident in asserting the things they do, for example, that the Nativity Gospels were manufactured, and that the doctrine of a Virgin Birth is entirely founded on a mistranslation, perpetuated by the fact that Matthew relied on the faulty Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) because he could not read it in the original language. Ehrman has no such limitations and he gives it to us straight. He lets us know that there are more "differences" in the surviving texts of the New Testament than there are words in the New Testament. He also gives detailed examples of how these differences, while almost always trivial to the meaning and intention of the Gospels, are not always so. In fact, mistaken and deliberate changes to the Biblical text have, over the ages, contributed to or established major theological claims, like the divinity of Jesus, for one outstanding case.
Clear writing, impeccable credentials, respected by Bible Bashers and even evangelical scholars, loads of Bible-based corroborative evidence - Ehrman is yet another example of the surest way to doubt Biblical inerrancy: study the Bible.

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