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Quotes from Misquoting Jesus — Bart D. Ehrman

born 1955 United States

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We don't even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later.

Misquoting Jesus (2005)

And so to read a text is, necessarily, to change a text.

Misquoting Jesus (2005)

For the only reason (I came to think) for God to inspire the Bible would be so that his people would have his actual words; but if he really wanted to have his actual words, surely he would have miraculously preserved those words, just as he had miraculously inspired them in the first place.

Misquoting Jesus (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bart D. Ehrman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.