Audio/Video. Bible.com - The Bible Online, Bible Prayer Room, Christian Community, Market Place and more.. Skeptic's Annotated Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon. Misquoting Jesus. 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.[1] The book introduces lay readers to the field of textual criticism of the Bible.
Ehrman discusses a number of textual variants that resulted from intentional or accidental manuscript changes during the scriptorium era. The book made it to the New York Times Best Seller list.[2] Summary[edit] Ehrman recounts his personal experience with the study of the Bible and textual criticism. Reviews and reception[edit] Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, wrote that the book is "a series of dramatic revelations for the ignorant", and continues to say, "Ehrman notes that there have been a lot of changes to the Bible in the past 2,000 years.
Jeffrey Weiss of the Dallas Morning News wrote: "Whichever side you sit on regarding Biblical inerrancy, this is a rewarding read Daniel B. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Professor Bart D. Ehrman - Misquoting Jesus. Textual criticism. There are three fundamental approaches to textual criticism: eclecticism, stemmatics, and copy-text editing. Techniques from the biological discipline of cladistics are currently also being used to determine the relationships between manuscripts. The phrase lower criticism is used to describe the contrast between textual criticism and "higher" criticism, which is the endeavor to establish the authorship, date, and place of composition of the original text. History[edit] Textual criticism has been practiced for over two thousand years. Early textual critics were concerned with preserving the works of antiquity, and this continued through the medieval period into early modern times until the invention of the printing press.
Many ancient works, such as the Bible and the Greek tragedies, survive in hundreds of copies, and the relationship of each copy to the original may be unclear. Basic notions and objectives[edit] Process[edit] Eclecticism[edit] External evidence[edit] Internal evidence[edit]