Ehrman explores how early struggles between Christian 'heresy' and 'orthodoxy' affected proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries, who occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons. By making their texts 'say' what they were already thought to 'mean', these anonymous copyists effected 'the orthodox corruption of scripture'.
- ISBN10 0195102797
- ISBN13 9780195102796
- Publish Date 1 December 1997 (first published 17 June 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 314
- Language English