Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.

Very interesting book about textual criticism. The first 5 chapters are very informative and give us a good background on the history of the copying of manuscripts and the different considerations that critics have to make. Another good thing about this book is that it asks lots of questions and makes you think about the implications of textual criticism.

Chapters 6 and 7 are geared towards using the methods laid out and tackle some of the disputed textual variants. However, I got the feeling that there was a clear agenda in the author’s motives due to his presentation and that becomes extremely clear in his conclusion where he basically says that we all engage in interpretation, which I agree, and that’s what the scribes did (and we certainly see evdence of that). But the scribes not only engaged in interpretation but maliciously changed the text.
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