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Books : Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN: 9780060859510
ISBN: 0060859512
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: February 05, 2007
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Studio: HarperOne
Sales Rank: 3651
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For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself are the results of both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes.
In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only certain versions of the stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today. Ehrman frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultra–conservative views of the Bible.
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I 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
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Many 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
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Reading 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
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I 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
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This 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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