Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is a book by Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The book introduces lay readers to the field of textual criticism of the Bible. Ehrman provides an overview of the 5,700 known New Testament manuscript fragments, from which scholars have cataloged 200,000 differences. When ancient manuscripts differ from each other, such as whether ...
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is a book by Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The book introduces lay readers to the field of textual criticism of the Bible. Ehrman provides an overview of the 5,700 known New Testament manuscript fragments, from which scholars have cataloged 200,000 differences. When ancient manuscripts differ from each other, such as whether they include the Comma Johanneum, textual critics use clues to conclude which version is the original. Ehrman discusses many textual variations that resulted from intentional or accidental manuscript changes during the scriptorium era. The book, which made it to the New York Times Best Seller list, is available in hardcover and paperback.
Ehrman recounts his personal experience with the study of the Bible and textual criticism. He summarizes the history of textual criticism, from the works of Desiderius Erasmus to the present. The book...
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