Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Altered Scripture and Readers Who May Never Know

Is the Bible authentic? Who really wrote the Bible? Was the bible corrupted as Muslims claim? Scholar Bart Ehrman's new book explores how scribes through both omission and intention changed the Bible. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is the result of years of reading the texts in their original languages. Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar and textual critic of early Christianity, he is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. Prof. Ehrman completed his M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. Since then he has published extensively in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity, having written or edited nineteen books, numerous articles, and dozens of book reviews. Among his most recent books are a college-level textbook on the New Testament, two anthologies of early Christian writings, a study of the historical Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet (Oxford Univesity Press), and a Greek-English Edition of the Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press). Prof. Ehrman has served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, and editor of the monograph series The New Testament in the Greek Fathers (Scholars Press). He currently serves as co-editor of the series New Testament Tools and Studies (E. J. Brill) and on several other editorial boards for monographs in the field. Winner of numerous university awards and grants, Prof. Ehrman is the recipient of the 1993 UNC Undergraduate Student Teaching Award, the 1994 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for excellence in teaching. The Topic: Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Altered Scripture and Readers Who May Never Know A talk by Pro. Bart Ehrman In this lecture, Prof. Ehrman explains how the modern Bible was shaped by mistakes and intentional alterations that were made by early scribes who copied the texts (Stanford University, Palo Alto, California April 25th 2007) Keywords: イエス・キリスト 耶稣 Jésus 예수 기독교 يسوع Jesús христианском キリスト教 Христианство Cristianismo Christianisme 基督教 聖書 성경 Biblia Bibbia