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posted by Ben Witherington | 8:43pm Monday November 30, 2009

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Word to the wise to the editor of the Economist—- Jesus’ name is not Brazil, even in Portugese :)

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Marianorr

posted November 30, 2009 at 10:08 pm


Ben,
Pardon the un-contextual comment.
I believe that, once upon a time, you had a post up titled, “text criticism under the search light” which appears to have disappeared.
Did you have such a post and is it still available?
aDios,
Mariano



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Kenny Johnson

posted November 30, 2009 at 10:45 pm


I saw that cover at the grocery store and immediately thought — “That’s not right!”



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Ben Witherington

posted December 1, 2009 at 6:30 am


Hi Mariano:
No not under that heading. I have done a post on Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus which is in the archives here.
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Mere_Christian

posted December 1, 2009 at 11:35 am


So many find it so effortless to insult Christians and Christianity.
What if it was Mohammad blasting out of his cave holding 72 young women?



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