Bart Ehrman (born 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of New Testament, historical Jesus, and development of
Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken
In monotheism and henotheism, God is conceived as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith. The concept of God as described by theologians
Even in the earliest days, there were important differences between the Hebrew and Greek (Septuagint) Bible. The Septuagint increasing popularity meant many copies were in existence. They were written by hand and Scribes made mistakes which were multiplied. Notes and footnotes in the margin were added to the body of text.
Like all frequently copied manuscripts, the Septuagint went through a process of continual corruption. Therefore the Hebrew and Greek bibles diverged more widely.