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

Some scholarly but accessible books on the early history of the New
Testament include the following:

    Kurt and Barbara Aland, THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, An Introduction
to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Textual
Criticism, Eerdmans, 1989.
    Bruce Metzger, THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Its Transmission,
Corruption, and Restoration, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1968.
    Bruce Metzger, THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Its Origin, Development,
and Significance, Oxford, Clarendon, 1989.
    Bruce Metzger, THE EARLY VERSIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Their Origin,
Transmission and Limitations, Oxford, Clarendon, 1977.

A fair amount of work has been done on the text of the NT since the earlier
works in this list, but they are still quite informative and useful. You
are likely to find them in a nearby seminary or university library.

Bob Schneider

----- Original Message -----
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?
>
>
>
> At 06:08 PM 3/14/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>I ran across a very revealing (and admittedly, disturbing) article about
>>Bart Ehrman that might be of interest to those of you following this
>>thread:
>>
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030401369.html
>>
>>The story chronicles Ehrman's journey from disinterested youth to
>>fundamentalist at Moody Bible Institute to becoming a disbeliever while
>>doing graduate work in textual criticism.
>>
>>It is a sad story. While I do not agree with the conclusions Ehrman came
>>to regarding the trustworthiness of historic, Christian faith, I can
>>definitely appreciate the emotional component: the all-or-nothing,
>>gut-wrenching sense of thinking that he had to decide between
>>fundamentalist faith and no real faith at all. What a tragedy.
>>
>>Whether it is textual criticism or science, I am sure that there are
>>ASA'ers on this list who can probably relate. I just wish he had found
>>another way --- maybe there will be an opportunity for him to encounter
>>God's grace again in Christ at a later stage in his journey.
>>
>>I can only pray for that and trust that God will make Himself known to
>>Bart Ehrman.
>>
>>Blessings in Him,
>>
>>Clarke Morledge
>>College of William and Mary
>>Information Technology - Network Engineering
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