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Bart D. Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus (2009, HarperCollins) 4 stars

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand — — and …

Review of 'Misquoting Jesus' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Interesting introduction to New Testament textual analysis enriched somewhat by the author's personal history. Most interesting to me, was the complete absence of mention, let alone discussion of, evolution.
A complex text with a history like this one meets all requirements for an evolving system, namely abundant information that is repeatedly copied with some precision but with a known changing error rate (that's what the book is about), many known copies in different environments, known differential survival and many hypothesized selection pressures. The author went to bible school, then got an undergraduate degree in English, then did graduate work in divinity/textual analysis - maybe nobody talked about evolution.