Lost In Transmission?, Nicholas Perrin
Lost In Transmission?, Nicholas Perrin
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Lost In Transmission?
What We Can Know About the Words of Jesus

Author: Nicholas Perrin

Narrator: Josh Childs

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 04/11/2023

Synopsis

Bart Ehrman, in his New York Times bestseller, Misquoting Jesus, claims that the New Testament cannot wholly be trusted. Cutting and probing with the tools of text criticism, Ehrman suggests that many of its episodes are nothing but legend, fabricated by those who copied or collated its pages in the intervening centuries. The result is confusion and doubt. Can we truly trust what the New Testament says?Now, Wheaton College scholar Nicholas Perrin takes on Ehrman and others who claim that the text of the New Testament has been corrupted beyond recognition. Perrin, in an approachable, compelling style, gives us a layman's guide to textual criticism so that readers can understand the subtleties of Ehrman's critiques, and provides firm evidence to suggest that the New Testament can, indeed, be trusted.

About Nicholas Perrin

Nicholas Perrin PhD, Marquette University, is Franklin S. Dryness Professor of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Between 2000 and 2003 he was Research Assistant to Nicholas T. Wright. He is author of numerous books, including Thomas: The Other Gospel, Lost in Transmission, and Jesus the Temple.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on August 03, 2011

Do the words of Jesus that we see in our Bibles today resemble the words that were actually spoken two millenia ago? Or have the Bible's authors, copyists, and translators played fast and loose with them? Bart Ehrman, in his book, Misquoting Jesus, makes a case for the (often systematic) corruption......more

Goodreads review by Orville on May 15, 2014

Keeping It Real: the Logic Behind Biblical Skepticism Perrin takes a scholarly but personal approach to the historical factors in considering the reliability of the early documents of the Jewish movement that became known as Christianity in the Roman Empire. The currently-available 2009 edition is th......more

Goodreads review by Edward on February 03, 2011

Why did I want to know about this books's "words of Jesus", at least words that are available elsewhere? I just happened to randomly find it in the Spokane Library and it looked promising. The book is not so much about individual words as such, but rather is an even-handed reply to Bart Ehrman'a be......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 26, 2015

In his attempt to refute New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, Nicholas Perrin agrees with Ehrman on various points, such as that Luke made changes in Mark's account. Perrin also concedes that each gospel writer had his own interpretation, though he deprecates the significance of minor differences and......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on July 29, 2011

I found this book accessible to the general reader as well as informative as it deals with a subject that is grappling the christian world, namely on the reliability of the gospels. I liked how Perrin weaves his testimony with scholarly issues. And what's more it is easy to grasp. Bart Ehrman is a s......more

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