The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman & Daniel Wallace in Dialogue
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The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman & Daniel Wallace in Dialogue

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The Reliability of the New Testament focuses through a series of essays from several scholars on one important question: What does it mean for a text to be "reliable"? We might, of course, get at the heart of this question in any number of ways. We might ask: What characteristics does a reliable text embody, or not embody? What must its history of transmission be? Can the text be changed and remain trustworthy?

These are the questions The Reliability of the New Testament seeks to answer, and does so in the first place by presenting the opposing views of two leading scholars, though the two only "dialogue" indirectly.

The dialogue consists of two transcripts taken from a conference held in New Orleans (2008). Each scholar briefly, but comprehensively, lays out their respective positions--Wallace argues for the NT's reliability while Ehrman argues against it--and in this reader's receive a synopsis of their positions but no new ground-breaking contribution is made to scholarship. Their arguements are widely known.

Still, the summary is valuable and sets reader's up to engage with the rest of the book's excellent essays by various scholars which do contribute new persepctives, evidence, and methodological consideration into the debate between Ehrman and Wallace, between reliability and unrelibility.

The book then largely addresses this question: how viable are the diametrically opposed positions of Wallace and Ehrman? Who has read the evidence better, and created a better methodological system for understanding the textual evidence we currently have? This is the primary question this book answers, and in doing so it also addresses the crucial question which Daniel Wallace must demonstrate: Is the New Testament text reliable?

Topics include, the history and methods of transmission, the theological importance of text criticism, the concept of a fixed text, discussion of why changes in the text occurred, the nature and effect of those changes, the overall stability of the NT text, and patristic use of the text. All of these questions are focused to one end: is the NT's text that we have today generally reliable?

Contributors:

  • Robert B. Stewart
  • Bart D. Ehrman
  • Daniel B. Wallace
  • Michael W. Holmes
  • Dale B. Martin
  • D. C. Parker
  • William Warren
  • K. Martin Heide
  • Craig A. Evans
  • Sylvie T. Raquel
  • Product Information

    Title: The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman & Daniel Wallace in Dialogue
    By: Edited by Robert B. Stewart
    Format: Paperback
    Number of Pages: 224
    Vendor: Fortress Press
    Publication Date: 2011
    Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
    Weight: 12 ounces
    ISBN: 0800697731
    ISBN-13: 9780800697730
    Stock No: WW697730

    Publisher's Description

    This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading scholars on the subject of the textual reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of the best-selling book Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, and Daniel Wallace, Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.

    This conversation between Ehrman and Wallace allows the reader to see in print how each presents his position in light of the other's. Contributions follow from an interdisciplinary team featuring specialists in biblical studies, philosophy, and theology. The textual reliability of the New Testament is logically prior to its interpretation and thus important for the Christian religion. This book provides interested readers a fair and balanced case for both sides and allows them to decide for themselves: What does it mean for a text to be textually reliable? How reliable is the New Testament? How reliable is reliable enough?

    Author Bio

    Robert B. Stewart is associate professor of philosophy and theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he holds the Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture and directs the annual Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum. He is the editor of The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue (Fortress, 2006), Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue (Fortress, 2007), The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue (Fortress, 2008), The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart D. Ehrman and Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue (Fortress, 2007),Can Only One Religion Be True?: Paul Knitter and Harold Netland in Dialogue(Fortress, 2013), The Message of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III in Dialogue (Fortress, 2013).

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