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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament - Ehrman, Bart D
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In a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman traces how early struggles between "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents. He argues that proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons--for example, to oppose adoptionists like the Ebionites, who claimed that Christ was a man but not God. Ehrman's incisive analysis ...

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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 2011, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780199739783

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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 1996, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195102796

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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 1993, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195080780

Hardcover