The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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 of early 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.
- Explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament
- Examines how early struggles between Christian “heresy” and “orthodoxy” affected the transmission of the documents
- Includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years
- Introduction
- The Text of Scripture in an Age of Dissent: Early Christian Struggles for Orthodoxy
- Anti-Adoptionistic Corruptions of Scripture
- Anti-Separationist Corruptions of Scripture
- Anti-Docetic Corruptions of Scripture
- Anti-Patripassianist Corruptions of Scripture
- The Orthodox Corruptors of Scripture
In sum, this book is a fine work of scholarship—innovative, judicious, alert, attentive both to its overarching argument and to the supportive details. . . Ehrman’s 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
[Ehrman’s] arguments throughout deserve our attention; they are frequently compelling....Clearly set out and persuasively presented....Variants that treat of Christ’s person and function must from now on always be considered with reference to Ehrman’s 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
- Title: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
- Author: Bart Ehrman
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 401
- Era: era:medieval
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Criticism, Textual; Christian heresies › History--Early church, ca. 30-600; Jesus Christ › History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
- ISBNs: 9780199739783, 0199739781
- Resource ID: LLS:RTHDXCRRPTSTMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-02-14T17:08:17Z