‘Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why’
Bart D. Ehrman, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains how the inspired Word of God in original writings was altered over time as manuscripts were copied and translated. What we read today in various different editions or translations is the product of scholarly work that is interpretative and illusory.
Ehrman writes of the accidental and the intentional alteration of the early manuscripts such that it is difficult to know what the exact original words are.
He says that “… The King James was not given by God but was translation by a group of scholars in the early seventeenth century who based their rendition on a faulty Greek text …” p. 209.
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