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	* [https://archive.org/stream/Prof.BartEhrman-MisquotingJesus/BartD.Ehrman-MisquotingJesus#page/n3/mode/2up ''Misquoting Jesus''] Internet Archive		* [https://archive.org/stream/Prof.BartEhrman-MisquotingJesus/BartD.Ehrman-MisquotingJesus#page/n3/mode/2up ''Misquoting Jesus''] Internet Archive
	* [http://www.bartdehrman.com/books/misquoting_jesus.htm Misquoting Jesus]		* [http://www.bartdehrman.com/books/misquoting_jesus.htm Misquoting Jesus]
	* [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156 Misquoting Jesus excerpts] from [[NPR]]		* [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156 Misquoting Jesus excerpts] from NPR
	* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfheSAcCsrE Stanford lecture on "Misquoting Jesus"]		* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfheSAcCsrE Stanford lecture on "Misquoting Jesus"]

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	* [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156 Misquoting Jesus excerpts] from [[NPR]]		* [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156 Misquoting Jesus excerpts] from [[NPR]]
	* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfheSAcCsrE Stanford lecture on "Misquoting Jesus"]		* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfheSAcCsrE Stanford lecture on "Misquoting Jesus"]

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-'''''Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why''''' (published as '''''Whose Word Is It?''''' in the United Kingdom) is a mass-market Christian [[textual criticism]] book by [[Bart D. Ehrman]], a [[New Testament]] scholar at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. 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]] and is Ehrman's best-selling book.
+'''''Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why''''' (published as '''''Whose Word Is It?''''' in the United Kingdom) is a mass-market Christian [[textual criticism]] book by [[Bart D. Ehrman]], a former [[New Testament]] scholar at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. 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]] and is Ehrman's best-selling book.
 == Contents ==
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 |  || Conclusion: Changing Scripture, Scribes, Authors, and Readers || Synthesis of historical claims, consequences for translation and interpretation, program for responsible reception of a text transmitted by fallible agents.
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'''''Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why''''' (published as '''''Whose Word Is It?''''' in the United Kingdom) is a mass-market Christian [[textual criticism]] book by [[Bart D. Ehrman]], a [[New Testament]] scholar at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. 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]] and is Ehrman's best-selling book.

== Contents ==
{| class="wikitable"
! No.
! Title
! Focus
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| || Introduction || Framing of aims and scope, definition of textual criticism for non-specialists, overview of how scribal transmission and editorial activity generated divergent witnesses to the New Testament text.
|-
| 1 || The Beginnings of Christian Scripture || Emergence of Christian textuality in the first two centuries, production settings, reading practices in assemblies, early circulation patterns and the absence of fixed canons.
|-
| 2 || The Copyists of the Early Christian Writings || Conditions of hand copying before professional scriptoria, typical unintentional errors, intentional changes introduced for clarity, style, and doctrine.
|-
| 3 || Texts of the New Testament: Editions, Manuscripts, and Differences || Witness classes and text types, Alexandrian Western Byzantine, quantitative scale of extant manuscripts, description of variation units and apparatus conventions.
|-
| 4 || The Quest for Origins: Methods and Discoveries || Development of text critical method, Lachmann Westcott Hort Tischendorf, discovery history of major codices, external and internal evidence criteria.
|-
| 5 || Originals That Matter || Conceptual problems with the term original, authorial drafts, dictation, multiple editions, community redaction, implications for the goal of reconstruction.
|-
| 6 || Theologically Motivated Alterations of the Text || Case studies where readings likely reflect doctrinal interest, adoptionist and anti adoptionist revisions, christological and ecclesial controversies that shaped transmission outcomes.
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| 7 || The Social Worlds of the Text || Social location of scribes and readers, institutional enforcement of orthodoxy, how use contexts in liturgy catechesis and controversy affected copying behavior.
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| || Conclusion: Changing Scripture, Scribes, Authors, and Readers || Synthesis of historical claims, consequences for translation and interpretation, program for responsible reception of a text transmitted by fallible agents.
|}