As I’ve interviewed more and more theologians I’ve discovered that New Testament scribes had more ability to alter the text than I originally thought.
This week on the podcast, I got the opportunity to interview Elizabeth Schrader, a doctoral student at Duke University about how scribes took new testament texts and altered it for the purposes of lessening Mary’s role in the New Testament.
Links from Elizabeth:
Link to the Open Access copy of my HTR article: https://dukespace.
Link to the HTR article through Cambridge University Press (costs $25): http://www.cambridge.
Website, Twitter, and Academia.edu:
https://twitter.com/
https://duke.academia.edu/
Link to the music video for the song I wrote about Mary Magdalene:
Links to books by authors I recommend:
Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: https://www.amazon.com/
Jennifer Knust’s Unprotected Texts (this author is my doctoral advisor): https://www.amazon.
Elaine Pagels’ The Gnostic Gospels: https://www.amazon.
The above books are all written for a general audience. For your more scholarly-minded listeners, I HIGHLY recommend David C. Parker’s The Living Text of the Gospels: https://www.amazon.
Finally, one last note from Elizabeth:
In our interview, I mentioned how it has been argued that 1 2 Timothy and Titus were written later, and pseudonymously attributed to Paul. (this argument is clearly laid out in a great book called The Legend and the Apostle by Dennis Ronald MacDonald, and I highly recommend it as well). However I may have accidentally then quoted 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (“Women should remain silent in the churches…it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church”), when I meant to quote 1 Timothy 2:12 (“I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet”). So my apologies for that mis-citation; since your listeners are very biblically literate, you might want to cut out that mis-quoting on my part when you get to editing the podcast. (I didn’t edit it out because I edited it before I read this email)