Arrived

Just arrived back from the States and UK. At the airport at Greensboro, NC I picked up a copy of a book called "Misquoting Jesus", which is about the various material that later became the bible: and how they got copied and re-copied, quoted and re-quoted. Words and ideas were changed, sometimes accidentally, sometimes deliberately, and sometimes whole passages were added, transplanted from somewhere else, etc. Like a mutating organism I suppose... For example, they reckon the story about the non-stoning of Mary Magdelene ("let he without sin cast the first stone...") was inserted from somewhere else. Does it matter? The story strikes a chord with lots of people. Anyway, I found the whole thing fascinating and thought I'd name this blog after it. I haven't got the book now - I left it in the UK with M, who also got into it. And so the book virus passes to another person... :-)