Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture

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“Textual criticism in general is the study of the copies of any written document whose original is unknown or nonexistent in order to determine the exact wording of the original.” (Page 54)

“Detecting the relationship between these translations is source criticism” (Page 24)

“First is the criterion of dissimilarity. This criterion essentially says that if a saying attributed to Jesus differed from the teachings of the Judaism of his day and from what the early church later taught, then the saying must be authentic.” (Page 39)

“Or as one British scholar said, ‘We treat the Bible like any other book to show that it is not like any other book.’” (Page 18)

“Textual criticism is needed for the New Testament for two reasons: (1) the original documents (known as autographs) no longer exist, and (2) no two copies agree completely.” (Page 54)