Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

July 16, 2007 on 12:34 am | Friedrich Braun | Atheism/Agnosticism, Books , Christianity , Judaism | | Email This Post | Print this Post

The Bible was the world’s first Wikipedia article. So many later hands have edited the original texts that we’ll never know what they first said…

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  1. […] I just came across a review of a book I’ve been reading off and on for the last month or so - Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - on a couple of different sites. The review itself (at Powell’s Books) gives a nice summary of Bart Ehrman’s arguments regarding the impossible task of obtaining and understanding the “original texts” of the bible. Many people have a vague notion that all the original biblical texts are preserved in vaults somewhere, and translators work from those original texts. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. The earliest surviving versions of the gospels are handwritten copies dating from centuries after the original texts were written. Also, we don’t just have a single version of each gospel; we have many versions, and even more fragments. The trouble is, none of the versions agree with each other. […]

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