Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
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Language | English |
Subject | Textual criticism |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 2005 |
Pages | 256 |
ISBN | 978-0-06-073817-4 |
OCLC | 59011567 |
225.4/86 22 | |
LC Class | BS2325 .E45 2005 |
Preceded by | Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004) |
Followed by | The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed (2006) |
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (published as Whose Word Is It? in the United Kingdom) is a book by Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Published in 2005 by HarperCollins, the book introduces lay readers to the field of textual criticism of the Bible. Ehrman discusses a number of textual variants that resulted from intentional or accidental manuscript changes during the scriptorium era. The book made it to The New York Times Best Seller List.[2]