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“The Gospel of Mark has some major shortcomings: It contains no birth narrative; it implies that Jesus, a repentant sinner, became the Son of…

— Alan Dundes University of California

“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character,…

— Umberto Eco

“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for…

— John Warwick Montgomery

“In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke, or Mark,…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus’ mission on earth and his divine origin, indeed…

— Peter Schäfer

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of…

— F. F. Bruce

No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach…

— George Weigel

“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the…

— Marvin Perry

“At the time that the early Gospels were written, the Pharisees and the early Christians were competing for the hearts and minds of their…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“By an act of faith the Christian reader today may identify the New Testament, as it has been received, with the entire ‘tradition of…

— F.F. Bruce