tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846270808622210589.post4516261071992421369..comments2023-08-21T08:54:36.565-06:00Comments on The Face of the Other: The text of the New TestamentBruce Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975464286394973580noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846270808622210589.post-24256468580996474602007-05-03T10:23:00.000-06:002007-05-03T10:23:00.000-06:00I'm a little embarrassed to be the first one to co...I'm a little embarrassed to be the first one to comment on my own post, but I've just run into an article about a talk Ehrman gave. You can find it at http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/may2/bart-050207.html or by clicking <A HREF="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/may2/bart-050207.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>I wrote the following back to a friend who sent me the link:<BR/><BR/>"Since I just recently read Ehrman's book, this was mostly a review, except for the allusions to the Da Vince Code and a couple of short paragraphs on Mark 2 and John 3 bringing up issues that I don't think were touched on in the book. . . .<BR/><BR/>"One thing he's reported as saying at Stanford is clearly erroneous, unless he's using 'commentaries' in a very restricted sense. He's paraphrased as saying that 'no commentaries mention the incident [of the woman taken in adultery] before the 10th century.' I don't know what he means by 'commentaries,' but the Didascalia (AD 200s) refers to the incident, and both Jerome and Augustine in the 300s say that some manuscripts of John include the story. So it's at least misleading to imply that people didn't know about the story until the 900s.<BR/><BR/>"Of course, I hate to criticize a fellow academic (after all, if you have 'Professor' in front of your name and teach at a big name school, you've almost attained inerrancy yourself, right?). Seriously, I enjoyed his book, but since it is the only one some may ever read on New Testament textual studies, I wish he'd reined himself in at a few points and avoided his occasional misstatements and exaggerations. It would almost be like having a best-selling book on Shakespearean textual studies written by _______ (fill in the blank with whoever you disagree with on the subject)."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com