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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture

The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

Bart D Ehrman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:28th Jul '11

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Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.

a fine summary of Ehrman's developed thinking and concerns, and as such a valuable contribution to the general discourse on the aims, methods, and limitations of textual criticism. * Dirk Jongkind, Churchman *

ISBN: 9780199739783

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 31mm

Weight: 544g

416 pages