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Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed The Bible And Why

  • Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed The Bible And Why

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    Bart D. Ehrman

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    Book, 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed, HarperSanFrancisco, 2007

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    For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand??and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only certain versions of the stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     BROWSING (MAIN)  BS2325 .E45 2007  AVAILABLE

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Lost Christianities : The Battles For Scripture And The Faiths We Never Knew

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Jesus, Interrupted : Revealing The Hidden Contradictions In The Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them)

  • Jesus, Interrupted : Revealing The Hidden Contradictions In The Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them)

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    Bart D. Ehrman

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    Book, 1st ed, HarperOne, 2009

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    Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman’s New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches?and it’s not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed: The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was and how salvation works The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all represented fundamentally different religions Established Christian doctrines?such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity?were the inventions of still later theologians These are not idiosyncratic perspectives of just one modern scholar. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     BROWSING (MAIN)  BS533 .E47 2009  AVAILABLE

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Peter, Paul, And Mary Magdalene : The Followers Of Jesus In History And Legend

  • Peter, Paul, And Mary Magdalene : The Followers Of Jesus In History And Legend

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    Bart D. Ehrman

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2006

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    Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code and Lost Christianities, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus’ most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene. He notes, for instance, that historians are able to say with virtual certainty that Mary, the follower of Jesus, was from the fishing village of Magdala on the shore of the Sea of Galilee (this is confirmed by her name, Mary Magdalene, reported in numerous independent sources); (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BS2515 .E37 2006  AVAILABLE

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Lost Scriptures : Books That Did Not Make It Into The New Testament

  • Lost Scriptures : Books That Did Not Make It Into The New Testament

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    [edited by] Bart D. Ehrman

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2003

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    And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy leads to damnation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BS2832 .E37 2003  AVAILABLE

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Truth And Fiction In The Da Vinci Code : A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, And Constantine

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