The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controv

Description: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture by Bart D. Ehrman In a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman traces how early struggles between "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents. Ehrmans incisive analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of early Christianity. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history ofearly Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includesa new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years. Author Biography Bart Ehrman is James A. Gray Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of two dozen books in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity. Table of Contents Introduction1. The Text of Scripture in an Age of Dissent: Early Christian Struggles for Orthodoxy2. Anti-Adoptionistic Corruptions of Scripture3. Anti-Separationist Corruptions of Scripture4. Anti-Docetic Corruptions of Scripture5. Anti-Patripassianist Corruptions of Scripture6. The Orthodox Corruptors of ScriptureBibliography of Secondary Works CitedIndex of ScriptureIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of Subjects and Ancient Sources Review "In sum, this book is a fine work of scholarship --innovative, judicious, alert, attentive both to its overarching argument and to the supportive details. . . Ehrmans work is provocative and should give rise to further reflection. I believe it will make a significant contribution to scholarship in both New Testament and early Christian history for a long time to come."--Church History"This detailed, carefully argued, and thoroughly documented study should be purchased for collections serving faculty and graduate students in New Testament studies and church history."--Choice"Written in a clear and interesting style."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin"Ehrmans study is well written....This book will be useful for senior seminars and beginning graduate students."--The Journal of Religion"Ehrmans is a good book, and one which deserves the attention of scholars"--Reviews in Religion and Theology"[Ehrmans] arguments throughout deserve our attention; they are frequently compelling....Clearly set out and persuasively presented....Variants that treat of Christs person and function must from now on always be considered with reference to Ehrmans thesis."--Novum Testamentum"This book is highly recommended as an excellent work of scholarship that is of great importance in the development of New Testament studies. Here is a new voice that addresses some of the central theological and historical issues."--Journal of Theological Studies"Bart D. Ehrman has written a book which will stimulate the casual reader and intrigue the academic or professional reader of the New Testament....An excellent work and definitely invaluable for lay or scholars."--Anglican Theological Review"This is a fascinating book, which deserves a wide readership....I thoroughly recommend this book for its textual and theological interest and for its readability."--Irish Theological Quarterly"[A] detailed and carefully documented study."--Religious Studies Review"This is a book well worth reading. The New Testament scholar will find in it an excellent study of textual criticism, systematically organized under the rubric of scribal Tendenzen. The systematic theologian as well as the student of early Christian thought will find in it an excellent expose of the fashion in which conviction colors the way in which one reads the tradition."--Journal of Early Christian Studies"This detailed, carefully argued, and thoroughly documented study should be purchased for collections serving faculty and graduate students in New Testament studies and church history."--Choice"Written in a clear and interesting style."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin"Ehrmans study is well written....This book will be useful for senior seminars and beginning graduate students."--The Journal of Religion"Ehrmans is a good book, and one which deserves the attention of scholars"--Reviews in Religion and Theology"[Ehrmans] arguments throughout deserve our attention; they are frequently compelling....Clearly set out and persuasively presented....Variants that treat of Christs person and function must from now on always be considered with reference to Ehrmans thesis."--Novum Testamentum"This book is highly recommended as an excellent work of scholarship that is of great importance in the development of New Testament studies. Here is a new voice that addresses some of the central theological and historical issues."--Journal of Theological Studies"Bart D. Ehrman has written a book which will stimulate the casual reader and intrigue the academic or professional reader of the New Testament....An excellent work and definitely invaluable for lay or scholars."--Anglican Theological Review"This is a fascinating book, which deserves a wide readership....I thoroughly recommend this book for its textual and theological interest and for its readability."--Irish Theological Quarterly"[A] detailed and carefully documented study."--Religious Studies Review"This is a book well worth reading. The New Testament scholar will find in it an excellent study of textual criticism, systematically organized under the rubric of scribal Tendenzen. The systematic theologian as well as the student of early Christian thought will find in it an excellent expose of the fashion in which conviction colors the way in which one reads the tradition."--Journal of Early Christian Studies"Ehrmans study is convincing and a valuable addition to our knowledge of textual variants, especially those which have to do with the early Christological controversies. The book is carefully planned and in all respects attractive and precise. Ehrmans style facilitates the study of this problem. An extensive bibliography is included."--Neotestamentica"[A] fine study....[A] rich and well-documented study. Ehrmans work will certainly be of interest to serious text critics, but also to students of the hisroty of early Christianity generally. His effort to implicate the stidy of the text in the history of early Christian controversies will enrich both disciplines."--The Catholic Biblical Quarterly"Brilliant analysis....Ehrman shows incredible breadth in working with the materials and has a clear methodological framework."--Rollin A. Ramsaran, Emmanuel School of Religion"An excellent way for students to get a readable introduction to the complexities of textual criticism and its importance for the development of tradition."--Michael L. Cook,S.J.,Gonzaga University"The goal of the book is to investigate how scribes modified the words of Scripture that key inherited."--New Testament Abstracts Long Description Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history ofearly Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years. Review Text "In sum, this book is a fine work of scholarship --innovative, judicious, alert, attentive both to its overarching argument and to the supportive details. . . Ehrmans work is provocative and should give rise to further reflection. I believe it will make a significant contribution to scholarship in both New Testament and early Christian history for a long time to come." --Church History"This detailed, carefully argued, and thoroughly documented study should be purchased for collections serving faculty and graduate students in New Testament studies and church history."--Choice"Written in a clear and interesting style."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin"Ehrmans study is well written....This book will be useful for senior seminars and beginning graduate students."--The Journal of Religion"Ehrmans is a good book, and one which deserves the attention of scholars"--Reviews in Religion and Theology"[Ehrmans] arguments throughout deserve our attention; they are frequently compelling....Clearly set out and persuasively presented....Variants that treat of Christs person and function must from now on always be considered with reference to Ehrmans thesis."--Novum Testamentum"This book is highly recommended as an excellent work of scholarship that is of great importance in the development of New Testament studies. Here is a new voice that addresses some of the central theological and historical issues."--Journal of Theological Studies"Bart D. Ehrman has written a book which will stimulate the casual reader and intrigue the academic or professional reader of the New Testament....An excellent work and definitely invaluable for lay or scholars."--Anglican Theological Review"This is a fascinating book, which deserves a wide readership....I thoroughly recommend this book for its textual and theological interest and for its readability."--Irish Theological Quarterly"[A] detailed and carefully documented study."--Religious Studies Review"This is a book well worth reading. The New Testament scholar will find in it an excellent study of textual criticism, systematically organized under the rubric of scribal Tendenzen. The systematic theologian as well as the student of early Christian thought will find in it an excellent expose of the fashion in which conviction colors the way in which one reads the tradition."--Journal of Early Christian Studies"This detailed, carefully argued, and thoroughly documented study should be purchased for collections serving faculty and graduate students in New Testament studies and church history."--Choice"Written in a clear and interesting style."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin"Ehrmans study is well written....This book will be useful for senior seminars and beginning graduate students."--The Journal of Religion"Ehrmans is a good book, and one which deserves the attention of scholars"--Reviews in Religion and Theology"[Ehrmans] arguments throughout deserve our attention; they are frequently compelling....Clearly set out and persuasively presented....Variants that treat of Christs person and function must from now on always be considered with reference to Ehrmans thesis."--Novum Testamentum"This book is highly recommended as an excellent work of scholarship that is of great importance in the development of New Testament studies. Here is a new voice that addresses some of the central theological and historical issues."--Journal of Theological Studies"Bart D. Ehrman has written a book which will stimulate the casual reader and intrigue the academic or professional reader of the New Testament....An excellent work and definitely invaluable for lay or scholars."--Anglican Theological Review"This is a fascinating book, which deserves a wide readership....I thoroughly recommend this book for its textual and theological interest and for its readability."--Irish Theological Quarterly"[A] detailed and carefully documented study."--Religious Studies Review"This is a book well worth reading. The New Testament scholar will find in it an excellent study of textual criticism, systematically organized under the rubric of scribal Tendenzen. The systematic theologian as well as the student of early Christian thought will find in it an excellent expose of the fashion in which conviction colors the way in which one reads the tradition."--Journal of Early Christian Studies"Ehrmans study is convincing and a valuable addition to our knowledge of textual variants, especially those which have to do with the early Christological controversies. The book is carefully planned and in all respects attractive and precise. Ehrmans style facilitates the study of this problem. An extensive bibliography is included."--Neotestamentica"[A] fine study....[A] rich and well-documented study. Ehrmans work will certainly be of interest to serious text critics, but also to students of the hisroty of early Christianity generally. His effort to implicate the stidy of the text in the history of early Christian controversies will enrich both disciplines."--The Catholic Biblical Quarterly"Brilliant analysis....Ehrman shows incredible breadth in working with the materials and has a clear methodological framework."--Rollin A. Ramsaran, Emmanuel School of Religion"An excellent way for students to get a readable introduction to the complexities of textual criticism and its importance for the development of tradition."--Michael L. Cook,S.J.,Gonzaga University"The goal of the book is to investigate how scribes modified the words of Scripture that key inherited."--New Testament Abstracts Review Quote "This detailed, carefully argued, and thoroughly documented study should be purchased for collections serving faculty and graduate students in New Testament studies and church history."--Choice "Written in a clear and interesting style."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin "Ehrmans study is well written....This book will be useful for senior seminars and beginning graduate students."--The Journal of Religion "Ehrmans is a good book, and one which deserves the attention of scholars"--Reviews in Religion and Theology "[Ehrmans] arguments throughout deserve our attention; they are frequently compelling....Clearly set out and persuasively presented....Variants that treat of Christs person and function must from now on always be considered with reference to Ehrmans thesis."--Novum Testamentum "This book is highly recommended as an excellent work of scholarship that is of great importance in the development of New Testament studies. Here is a new voice that addresses some of the central theological and historical issues."--Journal of Theological Studies "Bart D. Ehrman has written a book which will stimulate the casual reader and intrigue the academic or professional reader of the New Testament....An excellent work and definitely invaluable for lay or scholars."--Anglican Theological Review "This is a fascinating book, which deserves a wide readership....I thoroughly recommend this book for its textual and theological interest and for its readability."--Irish Theological Quarterly "[A] detailed and carefully documented study."--Religious Studies Review "This is a book well worth reading. The New Testament scholar will find in it an excellent study of textual criticism, systematically organized under the rubric of scribal Tendenzen. The systematic theologian as well as the student of early Christian thought will find in it an excellent expose of the fashion in which conviction colors the way in which one reads the tradition."--Journal of Early Christian Studies Feature Selling point: This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty yearsSelling point: A crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity Details ISBN0199739781 Author Bart D. Ehrman Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0199739781 ISBN-13 9780199739783 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title ORTHODOX CORRUPTION-UPDATED/E Edition Description Updated Year 2011 Subtitle The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament Residence Chapel Hill, NC, US Affiliation Department of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina, Cha Illustrations black & white illustrations Position James A. Gray Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2011-07-28 Publication Date 2011-07-28 AU Release Date 2011-07-28 NZ Release Date 2011-07-28 US Release Date 2011-07-28 Pages 416 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc DEWEY 225.6 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:53302467;

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