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Book SynopsisVictors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian heresy and orthodoxy affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.
Trade Reviewa fine summary of Ehrman's developed thinking and concerns, and as such a valuable contribution to the general discourse on the aims, methods, and limitations of textual criticism. * Dirk Jongkind, Churchman *
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY WORKS CITED; INDEX OF SCRIPTURE; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND ANCIENT SOURCES
