Lost In Transmission?: What We Can Know About the Words of Jesus

Written by Nicholas Perrin

Narrated by Josh Childs

Bart Ehrman, in his New York Times bestseller, Misquoting Jesus, claims that the New Testament cannot wholly be trusted. Cutting and probing with the tools of text criticism, Ehrman suggests that many of its episodes are nothing but legend, fabricated by those who copied or collated its pages in the intervening centuries. The result is confusion and doubt. Can we truly trust what the New Testament says?

Now, Wheaton College scholar Nicholas Perrin takes on Ehrman and others who claim that the text of the New Testament has been corrupted beyond recognition. Perrin, in an approachable, compelling style, gives us a layman's guide to textual criticism so that readers can understand the subtleties of Ehrman's critiques, and provides firm evidence to suggest that the New Testament can, indeed, be trusted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Apr 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781404118058

Nicholas Perrin

Nicholas Perrin is president of Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. His previous books include Thomas: The Other Gospel, The Exodus Revealed, Jesus the Temple, Jesus the Priest, Lost in Transmission? and The Kingdom of God.

Reviews for Lost In Transmission?

[drneutron_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Perrin has written a decent introduction to the problem of textual criticism and whether we can trust the Bible to accurately transmit the words of Jesus. He builds this discussion around the story of how his questioning in this very subject led to his own conversion experience, which provides a framework for walking through the major questions raised by Bart Ehrman and others of the day. And as you might imagine given how he's structured the book, he comes to the conclusion that yes, we can trust the Gospels to accurately transmit Jesus and his message.I was prepared to be disappointed with this book. I'm no scholar in this area, but I'm no novice either. A number of books like this come across to me as providing trite responses to the questions. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Lost in Transmission? is both deeper and more personal than that. I'll recommend it to novices who have an interest in the subject as a great entry point to the discussion.