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Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the unexpected popularity of Bart Ehrman’s bestselling Misquoting Jesus, textual criticism has become a staple of Christian apologetics. Ehrman’s skepticism about recovering the original and inerrant text of the New Testament does deserve a response. However, this renewed apologetic interest in textual criticism has created fresh problems for evangelicals. An unfortunate proliferation of...

to believe that we can reconstruct the original well with all the evidence depends largely on whether one trusts whether we have adequate methods for attaining this goal with the evidence we have.43 This is open to question, logically at least. For those such as atheist objector Robert Price, there will never be proof enough that anything we have corresponds to the original because we do not have the originals against which to check our reconstruction.44 The gap between the originals and our earliest
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