With the advent of the printing press and the subsequent publishing
culture that reproduces exact copies of texts en masse, most people
who read the Bible today assume that they are reading the very
words that Jesus spoke or St. Paul wrote. And yet, for almost 1,500
years manuscripts were copied by hand by scribes - many of them
untrained, especially in the early centuries of Christendom - who
were deeply influenced by the theological and political disputes of
their day. Mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing
manuscript versions that continue to plague biblical scholars who
determine which words, phrases, or stories are the most reliable
and, therefore, merit publication in modern Bibles. Whose Word Is
It? is the fascinating history of the words themselves. Biblical
scholar Bart Ehrman shows us where and why changes were made in our
earliest surviving manuscripts, changes that continue to have a
dramatic impact on widely-held beliefs concerning the divinity of
Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself.
Many books have been written about why some books made it into the
New Testament and why others didn't (canonization) or about how the
meaning of words change when translated from Aramaic to Greek to
English. But this is the first time that a leading biblical scholar
reveals for the general reader the many challenging - even
disturbing - early variations of our cherished biblical stories and
why only certain versions of those stories qualify for publication
in the Bibles we read today.
General
| Imprint: |
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
2006 |
| First published: |
March 2006 |
| Authors: |
Bart D. Ehrman
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8264-9129-9 |
| Languages: |
English
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| Subtitles: |
English
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| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-8264-9129-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780826491299 |
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