Ehrman, Bart - Religion Spirtuality - 07.04.23

"Misquoting Jesus" an overview of the changes found in the surviving copies of the New Testament and of the scribes who produced them.

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Where he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Prof Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary; Since then he has published extensively in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity, having written or edited 21 books, numerous scholarly articles, and dozens of book reviews. Among his most recent books are two New York Times bestsellers: “God’s Problem” (an assessment of the biblical views of suffering) and “Misquoting Jesus” (an overview of the changes found in the surviving copies of the New Testament and of the scribes who produced them). Among his fields of scholarly expertise are the historical Jesus, the early Christian apocrypha, the apostolic fathers, and the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.