I found this book fascinating. I've always wanted to know how scholars went about sifting through Bible manuscripts to translate the Bible. I've heard descriptions of thousands of manuscripts and I've heard how all of the manuscripts were written many years after the life of Jesus. This booked explained that process to me and helped me to understand various arguments that I've heard people use about the reliability (or not) of the Bible. Summary: This book describes how scholars examine manuscripts of the Bible to find the most reliable version of what the writer originally wrote. This is difficult because at best we have only the copies of the copies of the copies of the copies (and so on) of the original manuscripts. The earliest surviving manuscripts date to 200 years after the events they describe. That's not when they were written but that's when they were last copied. Through the copying process, numerous changes have been made to the manuscripts. A great majority of these changes are small errors that do not modify the original intent and meaning of the passages. However, there are some changes that do change the meaning of some passages in significant ways. Ehrman describes the process by which scholars examine the manuscripts to determine which text represents the most recent changes and which text is more likely to be reliable. Through this process, Ehrman presents some passages as examples of how the text came to be changed. Some of these changes remain in our modern translations today.