A confession - I don't attend any type of services because I am relentlessly skeptical of (and often outraged by) organized religion. In that vein, I found this book refreshing in its honesty about the ethereal and context-driven Word. Isn't faith supposed to be about accepting that we don't know? ...
Misquoting Jesus is an amazing piece of historical work. I -- like so many -- grew up with the bible in my house. Over the years I lost my faith as something that just didn't have any basis in fact, but I still find the study of religion very fascinating. Bart Ehrman has done an excellent job here, ...
Well, he doesn't take the conclusion where I think he should and he's a little too brief (I guess because he is not intending this for the scholars) but otherwise it's a great point that should be made over and over. I mean, it's obvious but many people would argue it's false or what have you.
Excellent book on the origins of the writings that make up the Bible. Or more precisely the way the original scriptures were changed, sometimes by error and sometimes on purpose. Anyone interested in the origins of Christianity and how it changed from a "cult" with various factions to a world-wide r...
I loved this book. It was packed full of great information, and best of all, it didn't read like some dusty textbook from a college theology class.It was an invaluable resource when trying to do an accurate study of the Bible and the history thereof. This should be handbook for every bible study gro...
Most Biblical scholarship goes out of its way to avoid suggesting that any transcription errors have made their way into the Bible's text over the centuries. Ehrman offers a more balanced treatment of this important question.
I found this book interesting. A biblical scholar, who was a born again Christian as a teen, decides to not only study the bible but other more secular studies. He does this to be able to prove to none believers that the bible is without error. But finds out he has been very, very, wrong about this...
This was a really interesting book. I knew there were problems with the texts, of course, but I had no idea there were "more variations than words in the New Testament." I knew some of the basics of textural criticism before but it was fascinating to see how it applied to these particular texts. A...
This book contains two stories. The first chapter is an autobiographic account of the author's change from a young conservative fundamentalist into a respected academic authority in biblical history who would be considered quite liberal in most people's minds. Then there's the rest of the book abo...
I was apprehensive about reading this book. I shouldn’t have been. I would feel good about recommending it to anyone, even staunchly fundamentalist Christians or atheists. It is simply a close look at how the New Testament portion of the Christian Bible came to be and the errors and additions and de...
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