張逸萍譯自﹕" ‘Misquoting’ Jesus? Answering Bart Ehrman The Story Behind ‘The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why’ ”
by Greg Koukl 09/01/2010(https://www.str.org/publications/misquoting-jesus-answering-bart-ehrman#.W5F_TVRKiUw )
《紐約時報》的暢銷書《錯引耶穌》(Misquoting Jesus)的副標題是“聖經傳抄/更改的內幕”和“為什麼”(The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why),作者巴特·埃爾曼(Bart Ehrman)的矛頭直指向任何認為新約文件可信的基督徒。下面這句話就是了:
[1] Bart Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus—The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, first paperback edition (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007), 7, 90. [2] Daniel Wallace, “The Number of Textual Variants: An Evangelical Miscalculation,” bible.org. [3] Ehrman, 10. [4] Bruce Metzger passed away in 2007. [5] Both quotes can be found on the back cover of Misquoting Jesus. [6] Ehrman, 7, 257. [7] Michael Kruger on STR Radio, July 25, 2010. [8] When a large number of manuscripts exhibit the same “signature” pattern of variations, they are referred to as a text family or a “text type,” e.g., the Alexandrian Text, the Western Text, or the Majority Text (aka the Byzantine Text, the underlying manuscript family of the KJV). [9] Kostenberger and Kruger, The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 205. Sufficient certainty is the goal, not absolute certainty. [10] Very minor differences in number appear in various catalogs of these documents, but these are accurate enough to make our point. [11] Paul Barnett, Is the New Testament History? (Ann Arbor: Vine Books, 1986), 45. [12] Geisler and Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible (Chicago: Moody Press, 1986), 405. [13] Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), 34. [14] Kostenberger and Kruger, 207. The number of manuscripts is continually increasing as more are discovered. [15] Geisler & Nix, 402. [16] Ibid., 391. [17] Ibid., 392. [18] Ibid., 394. [19] Ibid., 389-390. [20] Metzger, 39-40. [21] Geisler and Nix, 388. [22] Kostenberger and Kruger, 208. [23] Barnett, 44. [24] Metzger, 86. [25] Daniel Wallace, “The Majority Text and the Original Text: Are They Identical?" Bibliotheca Sacra, April-June, 1991, 169. [26] Daniel Wallace, “The Number of Textual Variants: An Evangelical Miscalculation.” [27] Daniel Wallace, “Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then?” [28] Kostenberger and Kruger, 215-217. [29] Ibid., 219. [30] Daniel Wallace, “Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then?” [31] Ibid. [32] Kostenberger and Kruger, 226. [33] Ehrman, 55. [34] Kostenberger and Kruger, 225. [35] Metzger and Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 4th Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 126. [36] To be fair, this portion was undoubtedly authored by Metzger. Nonetheless, the ironic conflict remains. [37] Geisler and Nix, 475. [38] Carson, D.A., The King James Version Debate (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), 56.