The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture

Introduction; 1 The Text of Scripture in an Age of Dissent: Early Christian Struggles for Orthodoxy; 2 Anti-Adoptionistic Corruptions of Scripture; 3 Anti-Separationist Corruptions of Scripture; 4 Anti-Docetic Corruptions of Scripture; 5 Anti-Patripassianist Corruptions of Scripture; 6 The Orthodox Corruptors of Scripture; Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited; Index of Scripture; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects and Ancient Sources

Bart Ehrman is James A. Gray Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of two dozen books in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity.

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