Re: What Bible? (Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels)

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From: "Dale K. Stalnaker" <dale.k.stalnaker@nasa.gov>
To: "Clarke Morledge" <chmorl@wm.edu>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: What Bible? (Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels)

> Interesting article. I had finished reading Ehrman's book "Lost
> Christianities", which I found very intriguing. Has anyone read his
> recent book, "Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible
> and Why"?
>
> Can anyone recommend any other books telling the history of the New
> Testament books and how the early church chose which ones belonged in the
> canon and which ones did not?

F.F. Bruce, _The Canon of Scripture_ (IVP, 1988) is a good introduction to
this subject. It deals with OT as well as NT.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Wed Apr 12 09:41:29 2006