The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament - Softcover

Ehrman, Bart D.

 
9780195102796: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

Synopsis

Ehrman explores how early struggles between Christian `heresy' and `orthodoxy' affected proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries, who occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons. By making their texts `say' what they were already thought to `mean', these anonymous copyists effected `the orthodox corruption of scripture'.

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About the Author


Bart Ehrman is James A. Gray Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of two dozen books in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity.

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