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Victors not only write they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affectedthe transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age whenscribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.
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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Bart D. Ehrman
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
- Subtitle
- The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bart D. Ehrman
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 314
- ISBN10
- 0195102797
- ISBN13
- 9780195102796
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Religious Topics, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Christian Themes, Theology, Linguistics, New Testament, History of Religion, Christian Theology, Copyright, Manuscripts, Christology, Reproduction
- Description
- Victors not only write they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affectedthe transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age whenscribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.