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After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. By Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vii + 436 pp. $26.95 (paper).
In 2000, Oxford University Press published its second revised edition of Bart Ehrman's The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. This textbook has been adopted by many college instructors across the country as their New Testament introduction of choice for undergraduates. It is clearly historical and comparative in its approach and Oxford University press has intensively marketed this text.
However, the amiable Ehrman, who remains an ever-popular presenter at such distinguished conferences as the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, has produced a "trilogy" in conjunction with Oxford University Press. His second volume, published in 1998, entitled The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader, is a...