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3art Ehrman first began to study
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the texts of the Bible in their original languages
he was startled to discover the multitude
of mistakes and intentional alterations that
had been made by earlier translators. In
MisquotingJesus, Ehrman tells the story hehind
the mistakes and changes that ancient scribe:
made to the New Testament and shows the
great impact they had upon the Bible we use
today. He frames his account with personal
reflections on how his study of the Greek
manuscripts made him abandon his once
'traconservative views of the Bible.
Since the advent of the printing press
id the accurate reproduction of texts, most
r*ople have assumed that when they read the
New Testament they are reading an exact
copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings.
And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years
ese manuscripts wcre hand copied by scribes
who were deeply infiuenced by the cultural,
theological, and political disputes of their
day. Both mistakes and intentionai dianges
abound in the surviving manuscripts, making
the original words difficult to reconstruct.
For the first time, Ehrman reveals where
and why these changes were made and
how scholars go about reconstructing the
original words of the New Testament as
closely as possible.
Ehrman makes the provocative case
that many of our cherished hiblical stories
and widely held beliefs concerning the
divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine
- cootinued on the back flap
MISQUOTING 
JESUS 
The Story Behind Who 
Changed the Bible and Why 
BART D. EHRMAN 
HarperSanFrancisco 
A Division ofHanperCollinsPublishers
Photography and Illustration Credits 
Introduction—The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; M. 777, , f. 24V, f. 37V, 
and f. 58 v 
Chapter 1—Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence, Italy; Photo: Scala/Art Resource, NY 
Chapter 2—Courtesy of Bart Ehrman Chapter