I get asked a lot about my various books, and I often mention one of my books when no one has asked (you may have noticed).  It occurred to me that it might be useful for me to present some blog posts on what each book is about.

Probably my best known academic book was The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (Oxford University Press, 1993).   Twenty years after it was published I was asked to do a second edition, in which I would explain where the thing had originally come from (in my head) and what had happened in the field since it’s original publication.

Here is the Afterword to the 2nd edition (slightly edited) where I try to explain why I wrote it and what I was trying to accomplish with it.  (It includes reflections on an alleged “original text” of the New Testament).

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