![]() ![]() It’s a helluva book!” Within 48 hours, Misquoting Jesus was perched on top of Amazon, if only for a moment. Stewart said that seeing the Bible as something that was deliberately corrupted by orthodox scribes made the Bible “more interesting…almost more godly in some respects.” Stewart concluded the interview by stating, “I really congratulate you. ![]() Tucker spoke of Ehrman as a “fundamentalist scholar who peered so hard into the origins of Christianity that he lost his faith altogether.” 3 Nine days later, Ehrman was the guest celebrity on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. ![]() When Neely Tucker’s interview of Ehrman in The Washington Post appeared on March 5 of this year the sales of Ehrman’s book shot up still higher. Within three months, more than 100,000 copies were sold. ![]() And since Bart Ehrman, one of North America’s leading textual critics, appeared on two of NPR’s programs (the Diane Rehm Show and Fresh Air with Terry Gross)-both within the space of one week-it has been in the top fifty sellers at Amazon. But since its publication on November 1, 2005, Misquoting Jesus 2 has been circling higher and higher toward the Amazon peak. The tedious details are not the stuff of a bestseller. For most students of the NT, a book on textual criticism is a real yawn. ![]()
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