The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (4th Edition)

Excels at what it sets out to do. The book take you through every aspect of the Transmission, corruption and Restoration of the Biblical text so that you can feel confident that when you pick up a Bible the Word of God has been preserved. One warning! chapter 8 is Ehrman giving his wacky views that the scribes changed the text to make an established orthodoxy. No reasonable critics will deny...more

Excels at what it sets out to do. The book take you through every aspect of the Transmission, corruption and Restoration of the Biblical text so that you can feel confident that when you pick up a Bible the Word of God has been preserved. One warning! chapter 8 is Ehrman giving his wacky views that the scribes changed the text to make an established orthodoxy. No reasonable critics will deny that some scribes through the years of transmission worked on a small amount of texts theologically. But to go where Ehrman wants that to lead is silly. His argumentation is sad, hypothetical situations don't build a case, evidence does! but unfortunately for Ehrman, he has no evidence.   hide

I loved it. Very helpful, but Ehrman's heretical doubt-casting shows up from time to time. Read with a grain of salt, especially toward the end. Otherwise it was amazing!