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6 months ago

Here’s the full text of what Sam is reading:

Bart Ehrman was a first-year student at Princeton Seminary when a professor’s remark about a Bible passage changed his life. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus tells a story about King David when Abiathar was high priest. But Abiathar was not high priest at that time, according to the Old Testament. His father Ahimelech was. Ehrman wrote a thirty-page paper arguing that Jesus didn’t really say that Abiathar was high priest. He made several points, including how Greek words have more than one meaning. It was a convoluted but clever argument.

“My professor liked the paper,” Ehrman recalls. “I got a good grade, but at the end he wrote, ‘maybe Mark just made a mistake.’”

This shook Ehrman’s whole world. Before this, he had thought the Bible was without error.

“After all this fancy footwork trying to interpret away this problem, the simplest solution is that it’s just a mistake,” he says. “This opened up the floodgates. Once you acknowledge there could be mistakes, you start finding them everywhere.”

Ehrman embarked on a twenty-five-year journey, both scholarly and personally, that culminated in his new book, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.

Turns out there are thousands of errors in the New Testament, Ehrman says, and several places where passages were added to early versions of the Bible.

Read more here: endeavors.unc.edu/spr2006/feature_05.php

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