textual criticism
Have We Lost the Message of the New Testament?
January 18, 2015
Lost the Plot? Have we lost the message of the New Testament through irreparable corruptions of the text? That's what some people wonder when the conversation turns to the issue of textual variants---differences in the biblical manuscripts we've discovered over the years. For many people, issues surrounding the way the text was hand-copied can make […]
Forgery in the Bible: Was Mark's Gospel Forged?
June 2, 2014
Forgery in the Bible? Was the Gospel of Mark really just an old forgery? That’s something you might hear liberal scholars say about a lot of books in the New Testament. For example, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy wrote this in a book called the Jesus Mysteries: In the first four centuries, every single [New Testament] document was at […]