错引耶稣:《圣经》传抄、更改的内幕 — 对巴特·厄尔曼的回应 (格雷戈里·科克尔)“The Bible has been changed and translated so many times over the last 2000 years, it’s impossible to know what it originally said. Everyone knows that.”This invocation of common knowledge is enough to satisfy the ordinary, man-on-the-street critic of the New Testament, and the challenge has stopped countless Christians in their tracks. The complaint is understandable. Whisper a message from person to person, then compare the message’s final form with the original. The radical transformation in so short a period of time is enough to convince the casualskeptic that the New Testament documents are equally unreliable.How can we know the documents we have in our possession correctly reflect originals destroyed two millennia ago? Communication is never perfect. People make mistakes. Errors are compounded with each generation. After 2000 years of copying, recopying, translating, and copying some more, it’s anyone’s guess what the original said.The response to books like Barth Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus – The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (it’s a New York Times bestseller) shows the public has an appetite for such topics. It’s a challenge we need to be able to respond to.I give that response in this month’s Solid Ground. The claim that there are hundreds of thousands of differences between New Testament manuscripts is true, but grossly misleading. It shouldn’t raise any doubt at all in the accuracy of the New Testament.The question of New Testament reliability is not a religious question; it’s an academic one. It can be answered without any reference to personal “faith.” Instead, all that’s needed is a simple appeal to facts. And that’s what I give you in this month’s Solid Ground.麦种圣经注释 约伯记 (夏德黎)夏德黎以透彻的导论开始,论述书名、正典中的地位、文本、语言、古近东与旧约圣经的平行文献、作者、日期、文学特色、诗歌、结构和文体、以及信息等问题。在注释部分,夏德黎运用他对古近东同源语言的知识,展现出广博的研究,提供详细、逐节的诠释,把每一段经文与整卷书的整体信息连在一起。 这本约伯记注释依循新国际旧约圣经注释系列的传统,基于彻底的学术研究,提供最新的福音派注释。这卷书的语言、文本、与神学不单是旧约圣经最引人入胜的部分,也是最难以掌握的部分,夏德黎小心谨慎地探讨它。宗教统治:基督宗教如何塑造世界,一部横跨两千五百年的人类史(汤姆.霍兰)人类的历史,就是一段挑战上帝的历史。 ✦授权全球14个国家✦ ✦美国亚马逊书店历史类TOP.1畅销书✦ ✦《每日邮报》年度最重要选书✦ – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – -✟- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 《纽约时报》《经济学人》《卫报》《泰唔士报》《科克斯书评》 《纽约客》《每日邮报》《今日基督教报》《教会时报》 一致高度好评 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – -✟- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 当西方世界越来越质疑宗教时, 为什么人们的直觉思考仍受它的意涵所影响? 无论你相不相信耶稣死而复生, 你所处的文明世界,基督宗教的痕迹与影响都无处不在。 基督宗教文明是古代世界中最长久、最具影响力的精神遗产,它的出现是西方历史上最具变革性的发展。即使如今有愈来愈多人放弃信仰、把所有宗教视为毫无意义的迷信,在人们身上依然可以看出基督宗教思想的传承痕迹。 正如汤姆.霍兰的论证,现代人的道德伦理观念,包括众人平等、慈善济贫、婚姻忠诚等,并非普世生成,而是被这个独特文明持续影响的成果。许多被视为与基督宗教对立的概念,诸如科学、世俗主义,甚至无神论,都根植于基督文明的温床。 本书回溯了基督宗教数千年来的轨迹,从西元前480年波斯入侵希腊到今日欧洲的移民危机、从古巴比伦王到披头四乐团、从摩西到#MeToo反性骚扰运动,对这段历史的文化、艺术、社会、政治等层面做了细腻而平衡的描述,深入探讨到底是什么使基督宗教文明具有如此强大的变革力量?以及西方世界对宗教产生越来越多疑虑时,为什么人们的直觉反应仍然充满基督宗教的意涵。 英国作家协会主席、获奖无数的历史学家──汤姆.霍兰──说出了一个基督宗教如何改变世界的故事。