I just read a bit about it. Sounds interesting. I'm halfway through The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception at the mo. Might have to pick this one up afterward. Reviews etc. seem to suggest the author starts well, but indulges in a bit of speculation as he warms up.

I haven't read it, so just went looking for a review. It sounds like many other books that come out now and then. Ehrman no doubt has the qualifications to make an appraisal of the Bible, but one scholar's opinion does not bring down the house. I can also see that Muslim sites are jumping on it as proof that they are correct...which is amusing since no textual criticism is permitted of the Quran and it is known that Caliph Uthman, concerned about varying versions of Mohammed's visions existed, called all mss in and made an autorised version. He then burnt the variants, much to the horror of personal friends of Muhammed, whose mss were destroyed. (Some variants turned up in Yemen about 30 years ago, but there has been a complete lockdown on the study done on them, with non-Muslim scholars forbidden to discuss their contents...nevertheless some information is trickling out, showing that the Quranic text was far from sent down as it was from heaven) Biblical criticism has always existed, and Christianity does not fear it. Bring on the doubts. The Bible's text is 99.9+% undisputed, and the few variants do not change the doctrines that have been taught for the past 2000 years.

+5 cause I felt like it...

i havent read it. sorry, but i fixed your -

I own a copy. I like the book in general, but some of it is rather a stretch.

In my humble opinion: Bart D. Ehrman is an author who loves to criticize people who ride horses, but who has never ridden a horse himself. The Bible is full of errors. Though many believe there are no errors. Those are the ones who downrate your question. Or they believe "their" Bible is perfect and without error. While I havent read the book either, I can tell that the man doesnt have any spiritual life with The Creator, Our Father or with Jesus or with The Holy Spirit. The Bible is simply a manual about how to saddle the horse, how to feed it, which horse to choose, what to expect. It cant teach you what you will experience. One person's experience will be different than another's yet they will share the same experience. That is why christians bond together, because they share the same experience. The same yet each is individualized for that person's life and future. The experiences vary, hence different denominations and different church groups. Many people worship with their heads and not with their hearts. Intellectual Knowledge does conflict with Faith and Spiritual Experience. That is why there are so many critics of religion. They live to criticize instead of living to serve.

I think that there are a lot of people who are quite good at that already and do not need a book to help them get any "better" at it.