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Getting back on topic, did anyone watch the show last night. I liked it as far as it went. Ehrman did pretty well with getting some facts out that the lay public is probably unaware of but the format of a show like TDS is not really amenable to a thorough discussion.
I liked that Stewart appeared to have actually read the book and got something out of it. I wonder if he read the book first and then decided to bring Ehrman on the show. Props to him if he did. Either way, it was nice to see some honest NT criticism on mainstream television. |
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Just as an FYI, the book Misquoting Jesus is a layperson's version of his more earlier and more scholarly Orthodox Corruption of Scripture which, if you are up to the challenge, is far better because it gives all the technical background for his decisions. It is a tough read unless you know something about textual criticism and Greek.
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Ben Withertngton has a review of the book at
http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/...cism-bart.html It includes the following interesting comments :- 'Finally, regarding 1 John 5:7-8, virtually no modern translation of the Bible includes the “Trinitarian formula,” since scholars for centuries have recognized it as added later. Only a few very late manuscripts have the verses. One wonders why this passage is even discussed in Ehrman’s book. The only reason seems to be to fuel doubts. The passage made its way into our Bibles through political pressure, appearing for the first time in 1522, even though scholars then and now knew that it is not authentic. The early church did not know of this text, yet the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451 affirmed explicitly the Trinity! How could they do this without the benefit of a text that didn’t get into the Greek NT for another millennium? Chalcedon’s statement was not written in a vacuum: the early church put into a theological formulation what they saw in the NT.' |
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