He co-authored The Text of the New Testament (4th Edition)-an academic standard in the field-with Bruce Metzger, arguably the greatest New Testament manuscript scholar alive at the time. 2 Indeed, Ehrman points out, the manuscripts “differ from one another in so many places that we don’t even know how many differences there are.” 3įurther, Bart Ehrman is an accomplished scholar with impeccable bona fides. There are 130,000 words in the New Testament, yet the surviving manuscripts (the handwritten copies) reveal something like 400,000 individual times the wording disagrees between them. Įhrman is right on the facts, as far as they go. There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament 1. What good is it to say that the autographs (i.e., the originals) were inspired? We don’t have the originals! We have only error-ridden copies, and the vast majority of these are centuries removed from the originals and different from them, evidently, in thousands of ways. In Misquoting Jesus, the New York Times bestseller subtitled The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, author Bart Ehrman fires a shot meant to sink the ship of any Christian who thinks the New Testament documents can be trusted. The story behind “The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why”
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