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The Reliability of the New Testament
Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace in Dialogue
2011
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The textual reliability of the New Testament is logically prior to its interpretation, foundational for the Christian religion. This book provides readers a fair, balanced case for both sides, allowing them to decide for themselves: What does it mean for a text to be textually reliable? How reliable is the New Testament? How reliable is reliable enough? Highlighted are points of agreement & disagreement between two leading intellectuals on the subject of the textual reliability: Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & author of the best-selling book Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible & Why, & Daniel B. Wallace, Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary & Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. The book includes a transcript of the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint event between Ehrman & Wallace that allows the reader to see in print how each presents his position in light of the other's. Contributions from an interdisciplinary team, including the following specialists in biblical studies, philosophy & theology, continue the discussion of the topic.
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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman
Author · 42 books

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. Since then he has published extensively in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity, having written or edited 21 books, numerous scholarly articles, and dozens of book reviews. Among his most recent books are a Greek-English edition of The Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press), an assessment of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas (Oxford University Press), and two New York Times bestsellers: God’s Problem (an assessment of the biblical views of suffering) and Misquoting Jesus (an overview of the changes found in the surviving copies of the New Testament and of the scribes who produced them). Among his fields of scholarly expertise are the historical Jesus, the early Christian apocrypha, the apostolic fathers, and the manuscript tradition of the New Testament. Professor Ehrman has served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, and editor of the monograph series The New Testament in the Greek Fathers (Scholars Press). He currently serves as coeditor of the series New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (E.J. Brill), coeditor in chief for the journal Vigiliae Christianae, and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs in the field. Winner of numerous university awards and grants, Professor Ehrman is the recipient of the 1993 UNC Undergraduate Student Teaching Award, the 1994 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for excellence in teaching. Professor Ehrman has two children, a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Derek. He is married to Sarah Beckwith (PhD, King's College London), Marcello Lotti Professor of English at Duke University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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