Victors not only write history: 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" affected the 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 when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.
| ISBN | 0199739781 | | Pages | 416 | | ISBN13 | 9780199739783
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 544 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Height (mm) | 233 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 161 | | Publication date | 28 Jul 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 27 | | DEWEY | 225.6 | | Academic level | Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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INTRODUCTION; 1. The Text of Scripture in an Age of Dissent: Early Christian Struggles for Orthodoxy; 2. Anti-Adoptionistic Corruptions of Scripture; 3. Anti-Separationist Corruptions of Scripture; 4. Anti-Docetic Corruptions of Scripture; 5. Anti-Patripassianist Corruptions of Scripture; 6. The Orthodox Corruptors of Scripture; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY WORKS CITED; INDEX OF SCRIPTURE; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND ANCIENT SOURCES
"In sum, this book is a fine work of scholarship --innovative, judicious, alert, attentive both to its overarching argument and to the supportive details. . . Ehrman's work is provocative and should give rise to further reflection. I believe it will make a significant contribution to scholarship in both New Testament and early Christian history for a long time to come." --Church History
"This detailed, carefully argued, and thoroughly documented study should be purchased for collections serving faculty and graduate students in New Testament studies and church history."--Choice
"Written in a clear and interesting style."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin
"Ehrman's study is well written....This book will be useful for senior seminars and beginning graduate students."--The Journal of Religion
"Ehrman's is a good book, and one which deserves the attention of scholars"--Reviews in Religion and Theology
"[Ehrman's] arguments throughout deserve our att
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