Earliest New Testament Manuscripts

Troy DeJongh troyd at pobox.com
Tue Sep 1 09:52:12 EDT 1998



On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Bart Ehrman wrote:

>    I was sent the the Introduction to this book and asked to write a blurb
> for it.  I declined, because it was filled with egregious factual errors.
> 
> -- Bart Ehrman
>    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bart,

Would you be willing to share a few examples of these errors?  Are the 
discrepancies linguistic/textual in nature, or are they theological?

I'm aware that you possibly don't share the theological views of Comfort,
but it would be enlightening for us members of B-Greek to know if Comfort's 
book is not a reliable volume in terms of its coverage of Biblical Greek 
or textual issues (realizing you were only given the Intro, of course).

Thanks.

--
Troy DeJongh            troyd at pobox.com            http://pobox.com/~troyd

> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
> 
> > B-Greekers,
> > 
> > Have any of you laid eyes on this book? I would like some testimony form an
> > eyewitness before I purchase it as a pig in a poke so to speak. It does look
> > like a tempting title. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Clay
> > 
> > ****Entry From CBD Web Catalog****
> > 
> > 
> > The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts 
> >   Philip W. Comfort & David P. Barrett, eds. 
> >   Retail Price: 49.99 
> >   CBD Price: 24.95 
> > 
> > A Greek transcription of 55 of the earliest
> > New Testament manuscripts. Two-thirds of the original New
> > Testament is here, and many of its portions are dated
> > nearly 200 years earlier than the Codex Vaticanus and
> > Sinaiticus. 







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