
– As he concedes in the Appendix, Ehrman often gives the impression that the textual issues are more serious than they actually are. I have what I think is a fairly good grasp of major textual issues, but several that Ehrman mentioned still surprised me. – Raised a number of textual issues I wasn’t aware of. Ehrman gave a similarly engaging historical overview of Jesus scholarship in his “Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium” – Provides a good historical overview of textual criticism. Ehrman has an knack for making dry, academic materi al interesting.

Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is a popular summary of New Testament textual scholarship that is, how does the text of modern English Bibles relate to the original documents written two thousands years ago by Luke, Paul, etc… ?
