by Bart D. Ehrman “This book is highly recommended as an excellent work of scholarship that is of great importance in the development of New Testament studies. Here is a new voice that addresses some of the central theological and historical issues.” —Journal of Theological Studies
“[Ehrman’s study] make[s] for surprisingly good reading, combining the suspence of the detective work required to uncover textual alterations with the excitement generated by the radical claim that some of the most familiar passages of the New Testament may not be ‘original.’… His suggestion that historians take seriously the malleability of scriptural texts in antiquity provides a needed challenge to the field… while also raising profound and basic questions about the nature of textuality in Christian antiquity.” —Theology Today
“Ehrman has written a book which will stimulate the casual reader and intrigue the academic or professional reader of the New Testament…. An excellent work and definitely invaluable for lay-readers or scholars.” —Angelican Theological Review
[A] detailed and carefully documented study.” —Religious Studies Review
“This is a book will worth reading…. The systematic theologian as well as the student of early Christianity thought will find in it an excellent exposé of the fashion in which conviction colors the way in which one reads the tradition.” —Journal of Early Christian Studies
The victors not only write the history, they also reproduce the texts. Ehrman examines how early struggles between Christian “heresy” and “orthodoxy” affected the transmission of the documents over which, in part, the debates were waged. His thorough and incisive analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity. In addition, Ehrman raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced to make them say what they were already thought to mean, thereby effecting the orthodox corruption of Scripture.
About the Author Bart D. Ehrman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels (1986), The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen (1992), and The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Eariest Christian Writings (forthcoming from OUP), he has written extensively on the New Testament and the History of early Christianity.
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