Quotes About Textual criticism

As New Testament professor Craig Blomberg observes, "What most distinguishes the work [Misquoting Jesus] are the spins Ehrman puts on some of the data at numerous junctures and his propensity for focusing on the most drastic of all the changes in the history of the text, leaving the uninitiated likely to think there are numerous additional examples of various phenomena he discusses when there are not" (2006).

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke, or Mark, or Paul's writings, or any of the early Christian texts that make up the New Testament.

If communities of believers obtained copies of various Christian books in circulation, how did they acquire those copies? Who was doing the copying? And most important for the ultimate subject of our investigation, how can we (or how could they) know that the copies they obtained were accurate, that they hadn't been modified in the process of reproduction?

there are more differences in our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

Não posso ter certeza, mas às vezes imagino se uma preferência crítica pelo contexto sobre o texto não reflete uma geração tornada impaciente com a leitura em profundidade.

Between them, the sciences of textual criticism, archaeology, physics, and molecular biology have shown religious myths to be false and man-made and have also succeeded in evolving better and more enlightened explanations.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

So it was that earnest searching for authentic ancient texts—Latin and Greek, pagan and Christian—was an ongoing European preoccupation for several generations before Protestants deployed the authority of another ancient text, the Bible, as a justification for rejecting traditional Catholic deference to the papacy.

Kitab-? Mukaddes'in Türkçesi çok kötü. ?ngilizcesi'nden kar??la?t?rarak okuyorum. Biri oturmu? çok kötü bir dille çevirmi?; bir kelimesi bile de?i?tirilemez ya: ondan sonra bir daha düzeltilmemi?. Çeviren, sanki ?sa'n?n Türkiye mümessili.