BART EHRMAN (UNC Chapel Hill)
"Misquoting Jesus:
Scribes Who Altered Scripture and Readers Who May Never Know"
Scribes Who Altered Scripture and Readers Who May Never Know"
Thursday, March 29th at 4 pm in Frick Fine Arts auditorium (across from Carnegie Library)
We do not have the original copies of any of the books of the New Testament. The surviving manuscripts were for the most part produced centuries after the originals, by medieval scribes who were copying texts that had already been changed - sometimes significantly - from the originals. Most of these changes were accidental, but some were evidently made in order to make the text say what it was already thought to mean.
This lecture will consider the kinds of changes made in the manuscripts over the centuries, both to see if it is possible to reconstruct an "original" text and to consider the reasons behind the alterations of the text.
Ehrman is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity, including a college-level textbook on the New Testament, two anthologies of early Christian writings, and a Greek-English Edition of the Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library. Two of his many recent books are Truth and Fiction in the DaVinci Code (2004) and Misquoting Jesus (2005).
This lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh's European Studies Center and Department of Religious Studies.
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