Professor Bart D. Ehrman - The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen

Bart D. Ehrman is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling Misquoting Jesus. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a leading authority on the early Church and the life of Jesus. He has been featured in Time and has appeared on NBC's Dateline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, The History Channel, major NPR shows, and other top media outlets. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

The Text of the Fourth Gospel
in the Writings of Origen

By Bart D. Ehrman, Fee, Holmes
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Publication Date: April 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1555407897
ISBN-13: 978-1555407896
Format: Paperback, 512pp
Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches

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Publisher's Description

This is the first of a two-volume study of the quotations of the Fourth Gospel in the writings of Origen, the greatest scholar of Christian antiquity. In this work, Ehrman, Fee, and Holmes present all of Origen's quotations in full, including all significant allusions, and provide a detailed comparison of these references with a range of important Greek and Latin Gospel manuscripts. In the forthcoming second volume, these data will be analyzed to show what they can tell us concerning the history of the transmission of the New Testament text in Origen's two principal places of residence, Alexandria and Caesarea. This study will prove invaluable for anyone who is concerned to see how the text of the New Testament came to be modified during the course of its transmission as well as for all who are interested in the interpretation of the Gospel by the most significant exegete of the ante-Nicene age.

Independent Review

"We have in Ehrman et al. an unrivalled presentation of [all the citations of Origen from John's Gospel in all his extant writings] together with a representative selection of textual variants from selected MSS. of the Greek (and Old Latin) New Testament where appropriate… To be able to reassemble and evaluate the type(s) of text of John available in the third century to a scholar as alert to textual variation as Origen will be of enormous benefit to text critical studies as well as to patristics. With the wealth of carefully assembled and judiciously arranged raw materials in this volume we anticipate that the second half will provide satisfying answers to questions about Origen's text(s) in particular but also about text-types in general…[W]e congratulate the three scholars responsible for part one for their painstaking and valuable monograph which maintains the already high standards set in this series." --J. Keith Elliott, Novum Testamentum