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| Original Title: | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why |
| ISBN: | 0060859512 (ISBN13: 9780060859510) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.bartdehrman.com |
Bart D. Ehrman
Paperback | Pages: 266 pages Rating: 3.91 | 13889 Users | 1236 Reviews
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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. 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.
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| Title | : | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why |
| Author | : | Bart D. Ehrman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 266 pages |
| Published | : | February 6th 2007 by HarperOne (first published November 2005) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Nonfiction. History. Christianity. Theology. Philosophy |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 13889 Users | 1236 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Please, if you're Christian, read this. If you're religious, read this. If you're atheist, read this. I guess what I'm saying is read this. Misquoting Jesus reminds me of the game we played in elementary school. The teacher whispers a story in the ear of one child and it's whispered from one ear to the next until the last child tells the story out loud. And guess what? It's considerably different from the original. No dah! Well, imagine this . . . A book is copied over and over and over by monksThe repetition in this book was ridiculous. I don't know how many times the author mentioned that the gospels are copies of copies of copies but it was more than a few. Probably more than a dozen. Eventually, he gets to examples which made it interesting but I'm hoping the book he released todayJesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior, has fewer redundancies. I'm about to find out. This was a decent introduction to the
As a believer in "verbal plenary inspiration", which this author once cherished but came to see as ridiculous, I am curious to hear his experience and case. I want to admit up front that I already find myself distrusting his conclusions because of an assumption/leap-in-logic that he made back on page 11 about God's motives and choices. But, that said, he still holds my interest on a number of points.Update: I am kind of disappointed in this author, because I feel like he promised these
As part of my research into the early development of the Christian Church, I took an online course "How Jesus Became God" by Dr. Ehrman, which I very much enjoyed. When this book showed up as an eBook bargain, I got it and promptly lost it on my huge digital TBR shelf. It surfaced when I needed to do more research and I found it immensely helpful. Ehrman does a good job covering the history of the developing Bible from it's earliest roots to more recent versions, through translations from and
This book is fascinating and deep. It presents the history of documentation,translation and transmission of the New Testament in a critical way. There are more variations among the 16000 old manuscripts available than the words in the New Testament. The reasons for these variations were illiteracy of scribers , mistakes, theological differences, worldviews etc. In short the inspired words of God were altered by humans. The question is if God didn't stop the alteration in his words,then may be
You had me at "reformed fundamentalist author."Very interesting and the author was fascinating. Definitely read the prologue if you get to this book. The author's education arc adds a lot to the books perspective.Ultimately if you're a believer, this probably won't change your mind. If you find yourself firmly on the fence or a dyed in the wool atheist, you'll find great information.
Ehrman was just a teenager when he had a born-again experience that led him to devote his life to the study of Christianity. Hoping to help defend the Bible as the true word of God, he focused his studies on the origins of the Bible, only to discover that the history of a book whose words many faithful take as infallible truth is nowhere near as clear as most people would like to believe. It seems that God suffered the same fate as many great writers and had his words altered by numerous
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