The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture by Bart D Ehrman
Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.
a fine summary of Ehrman's developed thinking and concerns, and as such a valuable contribution to the general discourse on the aims, methods, and limitations of textual criticism* Dirk Jongkind, Churchman *
Bart Ehrman is James A. Gray Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of two dozen books in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199739783 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199739781 |
| Title | The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture |
| Author | Bart D Ehrman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2011-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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