Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).
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Lost in transmission -- Did Jesus live? -- History, faith, and certitude -- Lord of the ring -- Jesus the Jew -- Can you hear me now? -- The Evangelist's hand -- Gospel truth or Gospel truths? -- Mistaking matters -- Misleading pens -- Translation wars -- Break on through to the other side.
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Bart Ehrman, in his New York Times bestseller, Misquoting Jesus, claims that the New Testament cannot wholly be trusted. Cutting and probing with the tools of text criticism, Ehrman suggests that many of its episodes are nothing but legend, fabricated by those who copied or collated its pages in the intervening centuries. The result is confusion and doubt. Can we truly trust what the New Testament says? Now, Wheaton College scholar Nicholas Perrin takes on Ehrman and others who claim that the text of the New Testament has been corrupted beyond recognition. Perrin, in an approachable, compelling style, gives us a layman's guide to textual criticism so that readers can understand the subtleties of Ehrman's critiques, and provides firm evidence to suggest that the New Testament can, indeed, be trusted.