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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 225.486 EAN: 9780060738174 ISBN: 0060738170 Label: HarperOne Manufacturer: HarperOne Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 01, 2005 Publisher: HarperOne Release Date: November 01, 2005 Studio: HarperOne Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Misquoting JesusI thought Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman was just another man's interpretation of history as he sees it. Everyone seems to have their own slant on exactly what happened 2000 years ago when Jesus walked the earth. Ehrman claims the original Bibles were interpret by errant and misguided individuals. I believe if you read the New Testament and meditate on Jesus' teachings you will get what Jesus meant. There is another beautiful new book on Jesus ... Read More Rating:  - corruption in the bibleMany people lived and died believing in the fable that the bible is the authoratative infallible book that has been preserved. It just happens to be that this is not the case at all. This book discloses the fact that there are many trasmissions, corruption, and intentional changes in the bible that in many cases we do not know what the original authors wanted to say. The bottom line is that there are no original copies of the bible. All we have are manuscripts from the 3rd and 4th ... Read More Rating:  - Misleading TitleReading Misquoting Jesus is like listening to a really long winded college professor go on and on and beat his point to death. The interesting part about the history of the New Testament and the manuscripts in existence and how they have been translated and mistranslated is over in the first 50 pages. The next 100 pages make you feel like you need to keep taking notes just to stay awake and follow the authors train of thought. The writing style is too academic to be engaging and the author doesn't ... Read More Rating: - Walk Your DogmaI found this book an arduous but extremely enlightening read. Ehrman is a serious bible scholar and parts of this book were a little too scholarly for me, so it took me quite a while to slog through it. I have always felt that although the Bible has important lessons for mankind, that ultimately it was written by men, and copied over and over again by other men and therefore is a nice book for trying to guide a reader to live a spiritual life, but that it cannot and should not be taken literally ... Read More Rating: - About TimeThis is the kind of study that is long overdue. Ehrman does much to solidify the foundational idea that the Bible is a human construct...as is religion itself. I still feel compelled to say that sure, there is wisdom in it...but I must also assert that, it's filled with much inaccuracy, illusion, and misinformation....leading to a loss of original meaning and intent. That the Bible is not a science text book for example, is already well established....and it is very far from unerringly accurate in most other ... Read More 
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