Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, (Paperback)

from danjsmall

Bart D. Ehrman walks you through the complexities of textual criticism and the various ways that the New Testament Bible has been revised over thousands of years. This is a great to begin with when learning about textual criticism. Extensive knowledge of the Bible isn't necessary to appreciate th...

from MsCellophane

After a long dry streak, I'm hitting on a lot of books I'm really enjoying. This is one of those. Misquoting Jesus is a concise(ish) layperson's guide to alterations made to the Bible over its lifespan. The author is a noted Biblical scholar, and though scholarship doesn't necessarily lend itself...

from Atomicmutant

A very accessible, relevant and friendly introduction to biblical Textual Criticism; a normally heady and esoteric field that nonetheless weighs heavily on the current culture of devotion to biblical inerrancy. The text assumes no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, and gently leads one th...

from richardbsmith

"The New Testament is a very human book." Excellent popular introduction to NT textual criticism. I had not known that Dr Ehrman had such a strong background in textual criticism. It is very impressive to find that he had worked with Bruce Metzger. (Though the review below that suggests that the ...

from krasiviye.slova

Misquoting Jesus is certainly accessible. The reader doesn't need much, if any background in textual criticism, historical criticism, or even Christian history. Ehrman doesn't assume that anyone is familar with the various controversies that were floating around early Christianity, so he neatly s...