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Loading... Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Whyby Bart D. Ehrman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. What if the Bible were more like the Wikipedia than the exact Word of God? With thousands of people making changes over hundreds of years, except with no track back. How could you ever trust it, much less condemn people to hell because of someone's interpretation of it? Hold onto your head, because that's exactly what happened. All kinds of basic, dare I say—fundamental—changes were made to the New Testament and no one can possibly know how much was changed, whether it's about snake handling or virgin birth. Ehrman makes a very good case for taking a more relaxed view about the Passion o' Christ and seeing it for the metaphor that it is, rather than divine smackdown some would have it be. Worth a look if you're a skeptic and don't know why, or a Christian who wants to test his faith.  wcpweaver | Oct 29, 2009 |  Mr Ehrman is the head of the dept at Univ of North Carolina. He shows how the current versions of the bible have changed from the original whau=ich was done some 1900 years ago. oaechief | Sep 21, 2009 | An insightful look into how manuscripts of New Testament books were copied, transcribed, altered through time. Some changes can be seen as simple mistakes in the process, some may have been deliberately altered (not necessarily with any nefarious intent), other things may have been added to clarify a growing understanding of the theology, but were responding to questions of the time. Though this has been seen as a "debunking" of the Bible, it only makes the whole process of understanding the text more fascinating to me. And I started seeing interesting parallels between pre-Gutenberg transmission of information and the way misinformation can be disseminated and duplicated on the Internet...and imagine trying to trace it back to its original source :-) (  ) rodrichards | Sep 2, 2009 | An insightful look into how manuscripts of New Testament books were copied, transcribed, altered through time. Some changes can be seen as simple mistakes in the process, some may have been deliberately altered (not necessarily with any nefarious intent), other things may have been added to clarify a growing understanding of the theology, but were responding to questions of the time. Though this has been seen as a "debunking" of the Bible, it only makes the whole process of understanding the text more fascinating to me. And I started seeing interesting parallels between pre-Gutenberg transmission of information and the way misinformation can be disseminated and duplicated on the Internet...and imagine trying to trace it back to its original source :-) ( ) rodrichards | Sep 2, 2009 | An insightful look into how manuscripts of New Testament books were copied, transcribed, altered through time. Some changes can be seen as simple mistakes in the process, some may have been deliberately altered (not necessarily with any nefarious intent), other things may have been added to clarify a growing understanding of the theology, but were responding to questions of the time. Though this has been seen as a "debunking" of the Bible, it only makes the whole process of understanding the text more fascinating to me. And I started seeing interesting parallels between pre-Gutenberg transmission of information and the way misinformation can be disseminated and duplicated on the Internet...and imagine trying to trace it back to its original source :-) ( ) rodrichards | Sep 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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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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