Bart D. Ehrman, "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament"
1997 | ISBN: 0195102797 | 330 pages | EPUB | 5,8 MB
Ehrman explores how early struggles between Christian `heresy' and `orthodoxy' affected proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries, who occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons. By making their texts `say' what they were already thought to `mean', these anonymous copyists effected `the orthodox corruption of scripture'.
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